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DR. DURYEA'S 



COiMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS; 



AND THE 



Princeton Rolj of Honor 



BY 



PROF. CAMERON, 



AN 

ORATION 

COMMEMORATIVE 

OF THE 

Restoration OF the Union, 

WITH 

A TRIBUTE 

TO THE 

Alumni and Under-Graduates 

OF THE 

COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY, 

WHO FELL IN THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE. 

DELIVERED 

TUESDAY, JUNE 26th, 1866, 

AT THE REQUEST OF THE 

TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE, 

BY THE 

REV. JOSEPH T. pURYEA. 



PHILADELPHIA : 

McCalla & Stavely, Printers, 237 & 239 Dock Street. 

1866. 



EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

OF THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. 



"Resolved, That the Rev. Joseph T. Duryea of Nevv^ York City, be 

invited to deliver an address at the next Commencement commemorative 

of the restoration of the Union, with a suitable tribute to those graduates 

and undergraduates of this College who were connedled with the Army 

and Navy of the Country." 

E. R. craven, clerk. 
College of New Jersey, Feb. 7, 1866. 



EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

OF THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. 



** Resolved, That the Rev. J. T. Duryea, D.D., be requested to 
furnish the Board with a copy of the Address ' On the Restoration of the 
Union,' delivered by him yesterday in accordance with the request of the 
Board, for publication. 

** Resolved, That Professor Cameron be requested to furnish any notes 
he may have made of fafts concerning the services of graduates and under- 
graduates of this College, in the Army and Navy of the United States 
during the late rebellion, to be published in connexion with the address 
of Dr. Duryea.'' 

Adopted June 27th, 1866, by the Board of Trustees of the College of 

New Jersey. 

E. R. CRAVEN, clerk. 
College of New Jersey, June 27, i866. 



ORATION. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board 
OF Trustees, AND Brethren of the Alumni: 

We are afTembled by invitation of the reverend 
Board of Truftees to commemorate the reftoration 
of the Union, and to render a suitable tribute to 
the graduates of the College who were connected 
with the army of the country. Such a service does 
honor to the judgment and the heart of those who 
conceived it ; it is moil fitting among the solemni- 
ties of an institution so dependent in the accomplish- 
ing of its high objects upon the protection and nur- 
ture of government, and in its turn so vitally con- 
nedied with the stability and welfare of the State 
as a Chriftian College : it is due the worthy cause 
whose triumph it contemplates : it is most just to 
the noble men, the memory of whose brave deeds, 
and sacrifices, and sufferings, it aids us to cherifli 



and perpetuate : it is most grateful to every instinct 
of the patriotism and piety of those who have so 
cordially responded to the call to celebrate it. 

More especially is this service not only warranted, 
but in all fitnefs demanded by numerous among the 
most treasured alTociations which hallow with 
changelefs consecration the place in which we are 
gathered. We are upon the soil of New Jersey, 
which, faithful and eminent among the colonies, 
furnifhed the decilive battle-ground of the contest 
for independence, and gave to the cause many of 
its noblest advocates and defenders in the Senate 
and the field. We are in the ancient borough of 
Princeton which marked the turning-point of the 
gallant struggle. Down this height the receding 
tide of the revolution poured sullenly behind the 
retreating Commander-in-chief to its loweft ebb at 
the Delaware, then swept proudly up again, and 
onward against the hastening Britifh Columns to 
the Raritan. We are within the precincts of a 
College which sent its fathers to the Congrefs and 
its sons to the ranks, which put its hand to the de- 
claration of freedom and lent its counsels to the 
framers of the Conftitution. We are almost be- 
neath the shadow of walls which echoed the tread 
of soldiery, and bore the scars of battle ; not far 
from a spot made sacred forever by the dust of the 
elder patriots. If standing on this hallowed ground, 
among the memorials of the nation's painful birth 
and struggling infancy, we should fail to signalize 



the burfting of its bands, and the grand aflertion of 
its proud majority, voices would come from the 
tombs to rebuke our sad degeneracy. If to these 
brothers who come up from battle in our defence 
to surround with us these altars, and thrill us with 
a fraternal grasp of the good right hands which 
have so surely wrought the deliverance of our be- 
loved land, we should not find it in our hearts to 
speak a cordial greeting, and sound the honest, 
earnest, grateful plaudit, "well done," these hills 
would break forth before us into singing, and all 
the trees of these hiftoric fields would clap their 
hands, and shame us for our guilty silence. If 
Alma Mater should forget to extend her arms, to 
offer a warm embrace, and pronounce a loving 
benediction to these her sons, who have, with filial 
faithfulnefs, come here to-day to lay their laurels 
at her feet, and reflect the luftre of their well- 
earned fame upon her honored head, the very 
stones of those enduring walls would cry out 
against her for a most unnatural mother. If in 
this annual coming home, we should not tenderly 
repeat the names, and thankfully recount the deeds 
of those who come no more because they sleep in 
martyrs' graves, these familiar places which knew 
them once but will know them not again, would, 
with resistlefs eloquence, chide our faithlefsnefs and 
our ingratitude, and through the halls in which 
they learned the truth and imbibed the spirit which 
made them strong to do and die, the summer 



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winds would mourn their absence and sigh their 
requiem. 

But, notwithftanding the impulses of a loyal and 
greatful heart move us to a cordial participation in 
this service, and strong conliderations commend it 
to us as a duty, yet, we will confefs, it presents to 
us a task most difficult to execute. We are not 
invited now, as so often we have rejoiced to be, to 
unite in acknowledged sympathy with the unani- 
mous American people, in celebrating the rescue 
of our liberties from invalion and deftruction by 
power, alTaulting from without, directed and urged 
against our national life and being by natural and 
common enemies. That would prove a task as 
plain and easy as it is familiar. But we are called 
to signalize the preservation of our country from 
dismemberment, our Government from dilintegra- 
tion, by forces upheaving from within, evoked and 
impelled by our alienated countrymen and fellow- 
citizens. We commemorate the reftoration of the 
Union, remembering, as we must forever, that it is 
the issue of a civil war. We cannot hail the grand 
result without a note of triumph, which sounds as 
well the defeat of brethren. May we then revive 
the memory of domeftic war, and celebrate a vic- 
tory over our kindred ? Will such recolledlion 
and exultation be magnanimous ? 

But this does not suggest all the difficulty we 
have to meet. The aggreffors in the war have 
been defeated, but not subjugated. They have 



been most surely subdued, but not passed under the 
yoke. Had we even attempted to bend their necks 
in servile subjection, we would have surrendered 
in the effort, and in the hour of seeming succefs, 
all we had battled for and hoped to attain. We 
held, and still do hold, that we were fighting 
solely to preserve the Government supreme in its 
unity, limited only by the wise provifions of a 
generous Constitution in its sovereignty over an 
undivided country, administered impartially in the 
interest of all the people. The genius of our 
inlHtutions, the very object which inspired and 
suftained the contest, made the subjugation of the 
conquered impossible. Before the world we affirm 
that we contended for a nationality of the whole 
people, and confefs that we are defeated if the 
nation fails to incorporate into itself those who 
have laid down the sword at our feet. With con- 
science sincere and true in the sight of God, we do 
aver that we went forth to war, not to fight our 
countrymen out of, but into, their rights and 
privileges in the Government and the land. How- 
ever incongruous the paradox may seem, we claim 
to comprehend the vital truth it exprefles, and 
assert our firm belief that the issues pf the struggle 
will solve it for pofterity. If this be true will not 
commemoration of the war perpetuate the aliena- 
tions and revive the animosities by which it was 
engendered, and tend to delay, if not prevent, the 
reconciliation of those eftranged, their cordial co- 
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operation with us in preserving and administering 
the Government, and developing the power and 
prosperity of the nation ? Would not sound wis- 
dom, therefore, counsel us not to revive, but rather 
to reprefs, the recollection of our enmity; not to 
rear new memorials of our strife, but to make haste 
,to bury the already too numerous tokens of it? Do 
not even tyrants, when they have crushed back a 
people who had risen against oppression, from con- 
siderations of most selfish policy, promptly employ 
some fit device to divert the popular mind from 
the disquieting remembrance of their struggle and 
defeat ? May we then, who aimed not only to 
preserve the nation, but to bring back misguided 
brethren to allegiance; to invest them with privi- 
leges they were ignorantly about to cast away; to 
win them when convinced of their mistake to fra- 
ternal confidence and love — may we continue to 
remind them of their apoftasy, its difastrous con- 
sequences, its ignominious conclufions? 

Nay ! if painful recolledtion and humiliation 
were the ends contemplated, or the only results in 
fact accompifhed by commemoration of the suc- 
cessful issue of this war, every truly loyal and gen- 
erous soul would promptly say, let it be never so 
much as named among us, let it be utterly forgot- 
ten. God, in his singular providence, has taught 
us this. At the moment of our triumph, he turned 
our joy to sorrow, our exultation into mourning. 



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And in our calendar he has suffered us to mark no 
decisive day for an annual jubilee. 

But commemoration of great events has im- 
portant ends beyond itself. It is testimony to 
truth vt^rought out by experience in the past. It 
is instruction to the present age. It records teach- 
ing for the generations yet to follow. And this 
war has developed vital dodlrine which must needs 
be alferted and reaiferted until it is rooted deep in 
the practical convictions of our American people, 
accepted as fundamental in their establifhed creed, 
infused like an innate idea into the belief of their 
children. Nor is this all. The spirit of the past 
must be transmitted to the future by continuous 
recollection. The due appreciation of the inesti- 
mable worth of the Union must be secured by re- 
newed conlideration of the agony and sacrifice it 
cost to save it. Devotion to the Union must be 
kindled afresh from the memory of the consecration 
of those who first cherished it and died to redeem 
it. In scenes like this we must inspire the spirit 
of the patriots in their sons, and rouse their souls 
to high endeavors to imitate their glorious deeds. 

But another consideration adds to the extreme 
delicacy of the task before us. This is the yearly 
festival of the College, to which she summons all 
her sons. They respond to the call from every 
quarter of the land. They are here to-day, from 
the South as well as from the North. We recog- 
nize among them those who have come from dis- 



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loyal States, and from the ranks of the insurgent 
army. We accordingly commemorate the restora- 
tion of the Union in presence of those who sin- 
cerely sought to effect its diflblution ; we pay our 
tribute to the heroes of the army of the country, 
in the hearing of the men who met them face to 
face in deadly battle. Shall we then celebrate our 
achievement before their very eyes, and sound the 
praises of their victors in their very ears ? Is this 
a generous reception, will this promote our recon- 
ciliation ? 

Let us suspend our judgment for a moment. If 
we should waive this public service, we still would 
meet them. Their presence here suggests all that 
this occafion more purposely recalls. We do not 
then compel unwilling and rouse inactive memory. 
The ordeal, however painful, must be passed. And 
which is the manly way for us, for them, to meet 
it openly and fairly, or to ignore it weakly and 
with hypocrisy ? We do believe it noblest in us 
all to look honeftly upon the past, and stand 
squarely up to our position. We cannot, in God's 
name, we will not deny that we were earnest and 
determined in our faith and purpose in the war. 
We believed in the Union, we thought it vital to 
our national being, we esteemed our nationality 
eflential to our liberty and peace upon this con- 
tinent. For these high ends we poured out our 
treasures, sent forth our sons, offered our most 
fervent prayers. For them we fought, and would 



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have fought on to the bitter end, in suffering and 
sorrow, even through tedious years, until they could 
be afTerted beyond denial, and established beyond 
reversal. We cannot now abate one jot or tittle 
from these principles for which we strove; we 
cannot come down one yielding step from the lofty 
pofition we have taken. Should we, from mis- 
taken notions of conciliation, or through weak 
timidity, renounce our faith, abandon our high 
ground, we would fling into the face of our Southern 
brethren the groflest insult we could devise. Shall 
we tell them — without a cause we waged this 
bloody war against you ; with deliberate wanton- 
ness, and unneedful cruelty, we closed your harbors, 
sealed up the sources of your wealth, disrupted 
your social syftem, burned your cities, made deso- 
late your homes, laid waste your fair fields, dese- 
crated your churches, slew your people, made 
childlefs parents, and weeping widows, and wailing 
orphans almost at every fire-side ? Would we dare 
to look them in the eyes and tell them this? 
Would that conciliate them, revive their con- 
fidence in us, inspire fraternal feeling, invite to 
civil fellowfhip ? Were we unprincipled and 
impolitic enough to descend so low, would we 
dare to do it in presence of these others who 
have toiled, and suflfered, and bled, and would 
have died in the contest, and have buried thefc- 
comrades on a thousand battle-fields ? Could we 
do it, when we recall the dying agonies of thrice 



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a hundred thousand patriot heroes, the sorrows of 
a hundred thousand loyal homes? No! No! The 
war is a fact accomplished, and we have made it 
so. It cannot be undone. We have but one 
apology to offer for it, if apology we needs must 
make. We waged it with dread reluctance from 
considerations of extreme neceffity. No other 
motives could have compelled us to it, sustained 
our courage, and made us strong and willing in 
agony to struggle, in brokennefs of heart to sacri- 
fice. No other ends could have received the sanc- 
tion of our conscience, the prayers and benedic- 
tions of our religion. For no others could we have 
made our appeal to God, and put our trust in Him, 
and hoped for the help of His just providence. 
Standing firm in our true pofition, holding fast to 
these affertions with bold sincerity, we shall be un- 
derstood and honored by those who have most 
widely differed from us, and most determinedly 
opposed us. 

Maintaining this strong ground, we are better 
able to assert effectively a truth soon to be de- 
veloped and confirmed by sure results, even now 
maturing, until it comes to be acknowledged uni- 
versale, which will contribute more than all other 
facts combined to secure a thorough reconciliation 
and lasting harmony. We mean this truth — that 
fhe objects sought and accomplifhed in the war 
were vital to the highest interests of all the people 
of the land. However strange the declaration may 



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appear to those who cannot yet perceive the issue 
as we most distinctly understood it, nevertheless 
we confidently announce it — we believed the war 
to be in all its ultimate results as beneficent to 
those on whom we waged it as it was just and es- 
sential to ourselves. We challenge the world to 
convict us of aught in the spirit with which the 
nation, as a whole, accepted and suftained the con- 
test at variance with this sentiment. The heart of 
that lamented man who was called of Providence 
to exprefs the will, and execute the purpose, and 
guide the energies of the nation, whose solemn 
work it was to summon armies, instruct their 
chiefs, provide their enginery, and dire6l their des- 
tructive forces, was all the while, as some of us do 
know by tokens most convincing, filled to the flow- 
ing over with generous charity and purest kind- 
nefs. And that great heart kept time with the 
pulses of the nation. And the surest way to true 
conciliation and lasting friendship is to prove this 
certain fact to those who by wrong conviction and 
false pofition were accounted for a while our ene- 
mies. To this good end we must continue to 
demonstrate the necefiity, and justice, and the ul- 
timate beneficence of the war for the Union. 

That we may attempt to do our part in this 
good work, we will confider and illustrate briefly 
some grand results accomplifhed by the war, which 
are equally connected with the interests of all por- 
tions of the country. 



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I. The war has tested practically and decided 
the fact of our American nationality. 

The history of our Government defines three 
periods of development, in which three forms of 
polity succeflively obtained — the colonial, the con- 
federated state, and the national. The epoch which 
marks the commencement of the last period is 
the year 1787. In a convention of delegates from 
twelve States a Constitution was framed, by which 
sovereignty was vested in a Federal Government. 
By subsequent ratification in popular conventions 
it became the fundamental law of the land. In 
the acts adopting it, the people aflumed the char- 
acter and functions of a nation. To this effect is 
the entire evidence of history. Proof indisputable 
is found in the fadts connected with the formation 
of the Union, in the testimony of its founders, in 
the very vocabulary of the Constitution, in the 
declarations and explanations of its framers, in the 
decifions of the Supreme Court of the country. In 
one of these decisions the doctrine of our present 
polity is most emphatically declared : 

" The Government of the Union is a Govern- 
ment of the people. It emanates from them. Its 
powers are granted by them, and are to be exer- 
cised directly and for their benefit. The Govern- 
ment of the Union is supreme within its sphere of 
action." 

Upon this basis of a federal sovereignty, limited 
only in its control of the people, all and singular. 



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by the provisions of the Constitution, the Govern- 
ment was administered without serious obstruc- 
tions for more than seventy years until it met re- 
sistance in the late rebellion. It is true, each State 
reserved, and was allowed a form of government, 
and has always exercised a certain jurisdiction 
within its boundaries for definite ends ; but it could 
not assert itself an independent sovereignty even in 
its sphere. The compact of the people demanded 
that its form of government be homogeneous with 
the Federal Government, its jurisdiction subor- 
dinate to federal supremacy. Between the cen- 
tripetal force of federal authority, and the centri- 
fugal force of State control, the system finds its 
balance, secures the welfare of the commonwealth, 
and preserves the rights and liberties of individual 
citizens. Our polity accordingly is national. It 
confists not in a confederacy of independent states, 
temporarily afibciated for a few common ends, but 
in one, indifibluble, organic union of the people. 
The Congress is not simply a great central com- 
mission, with powers delegated and limited by the 
several States ; it is a Government supreme in its 
authority, universal in its control. The federal 
officers are not State agents, but rulers of the land. 
They govern not merely the little District of 
Columbia, but the country. They command, not 
only an insignificant standing army, a few ships, 
and arsenals and navy-yards, but the efFed:ive forces 
of the States. They control not alone some volun- 

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tary offerings in a common treasury, but the entire 
resources of the land. What are these but the 
distinctive elements and functions of a nationality ? 

The supremacy of the National Government 
was the matter at issue in the war. It is con- 
fidently asserted that the diffolution of the Union, 
and the re-establishment of State Sovereignty 
was the direct and long-cherished object of the 
authors of the war. It is probable, however, that 
decision on this point must wait the evidence of 
facts not yet sufficiently developed. So far as his- 
tory is now recorded it explains the issue on this 
wise : The political leaders of a section of the 
country were dilfatisfied with the sentiments and 
manifest purpose of the great body of the people 
in reference to slavery. The majority desired its 
abolition, confidering it a moral, social and political 
evil. Of the majority, comparatively few desired 
to invoke the power of the Federal Government 
for its immediate extinction. The remainder, 
holding the General Government bound by the 
provisions of its Constitution to refrain from inter- 
ference with the system in the sphere in which it 
had obtained existence, determined only to ex- 
clude it from the common domain ; or to take such 
measures as would make its extension practically 
impoffible. 

The people of the section attempted to justify 
the inffcitution on the grounds of divine sanction, so- 
cial necessity, and wise political economy. They 



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determined to defend, perpetuate and extend it. 
They were led to believe that it was the purpose 
of a growing and resistless majority of the people 
to secure its unconditional, immediate, entire ex- 
termination. Those who were well informed and 
candid, confessed that it was the purpose of the 
majority simply to limit slavery to the States in 
which it was existing. All, however, saw that the 
profit and security of the institution demanded its 
extension ; that if it were confined, it would in- 
evitably react upon itself to its own destruction 
and the utter ruin of the peculiar interests of those 
who supported and defended it. They accordingly 
determined to difix)lve their connection with the 
Government, and to eftablish a confederacy among 
themfelves, holding the States in which they lived, 
and such portions of the common territory as they 
might be able to retain, as the needful sphere for 
the profitable development of slavery. 

To prepare the people for this action a theory 
had been long provided, it had been confidently 
proclaimed and affiduously expounded and defended 
by far-seeing men for more than thirty years, until 
it came to be a part of their most cherifhed creed. 
Taught from childhood to believe it, the mafi^es 
held it most tenaciously. It is the grand apology 
for their rebellion. It furnishes considerations 
which have already turned the loyal heart from 
wrathful vindictiveness to sad regret, from burn- 
ing vengeance to long-suffering charity ; and now 



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disposes it to honorable conciliation and forgive- 
ness. The doctrines of this theory were briefly 
these : The Union is a compact of convenience. 
It is binding only during the pleasure of the parties. 
The States are sovereign. The right of seceflion 
is involved in their sovereignty; they may exercise 
the right at their discretion. 

A lawful and regular election, in which the 
citizens of all the States participated, resulted in 
the choice of an administration committed to a 
policy adverse to the extension of slavery. This 
was deemed sufficient cause for the practical asser- 
tion of the theory of State independence, and the 
right of separation from the Union. By what was 
claimed to be legitimate action, though it was 
neither ordered nor confirmed by popular expres- 
sion, seven States paifed ordinances of seceffion, 
united in the establishment of a hostile confederacy, 
and proclaimed the diifolution of the Union an ac- 
complifhed fact. To vindicate the right and 
defend the position thus afiumed, a warlike atti- 
tude was taken, and provision made to resist by 
force of arms any exercise of federal authority. 
The officers of the confederacy seized all the prop- 
erty of the Government within the limits of the 
seceded States, except three forts on the coast of 
Florida, and one in Charleston harbor, and pre- 
pared to seize and capture these. All this was 
prior to any declaration of the policy and purpose 
of the incoming administration, before it had so 



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much as entered on its office, and accordingly 
before it could, if so disposed, direct aggreffive 
action against the rights of any State, or any in- 
terests of slavery. The moment it came into power 
the administration, by its first utterance, declared 
that it had no lawful right, nor purpose, nor even 
inclination, directly or indirectly, to interfere with 
the institution of slavery in the States where it was 
already in existence : that it was bound by solemn 
oath, and in consistency with the platform on 
which it was elected, to maintain inviolate the 
rights of the States, and especially the right of each 
State to order and control its own domestic insti- 
tutions, according to its own judgment exclusively, 
because that right was held to be efiential to the 
balance of power on which the perfection and en- 
durance of our political fabric depend. By deliv- 
erances like these the Government labored to 
convince the people of the South that no real 
grievance could ensue to justify resistance to its 
legitimate authority. 

But on the other hand, true to the Constitution, 
and the traditions of our political history, the 
Government firmly announced the doctrine by 
which it should be guided. The union of these 
States is perpetual. No State upon its own mere 
motion can lawfully get out of the Union. Re- 
solves and ordinances to that efi^ect are legally void. 
Acts of violence within any State or States against 
the authority of the United States are insurrec- 



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tionary, or revolutionary, according to circum- 
stances. 

The purpose was proclaimed, not with threaten- 
ing, but calm and sure determination, that the ad- 
ministration would take care that the laws of the 
Union should be faithfully executed in all the 
States. These solemn words of the President ex- 
plained the attitude of government in the only 
position it poffibly could take consiftent with the 
oath of duty to the Union. " In your hands, my 
dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, 
are the momentous issues of civil war. The Gov- 
ernment will not assail you. You can have no 
conflict without being yourselves the aggrefTors. 
You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy 
the Government, while I shall have the most 
solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." 
The answer was sent from the mouth of cannon, 
and echoed from the walls of Sumpter. The 
Southern leaders had referred the question in dis- 
pute to the stern arbitrament of war. No choice 
was left the Government; the trial was accepted. 
The people rose with one mighty impulse, and 
decreed, they have asked for war, let them have 
war, and we will wage it. 

The war is ended in national victory. The arm 
of refistance to federal authority is broken. The 
federal supremacy is conterminous with the 
boundaries of the country. The States are waiting 
at the door of Congress for re-admiflion to the 



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federal councils. That door will not be opened 
until the Union is proclaimed perpetual, and seces- 
sion treason — the General Government supreme — 
the State subordinate — the Constitution fundamen- 
tal — the laws of States derived. Whether or not 
past history declares the American people a sove- 
reign nation, the present fact will make them such 
for all the future. For the Union is to-day estab- 
lifhed, and we mean, if neceffity shall once more 
require it of us, to turn to desperate deeds the 
words of this our constant prayer — " Perpetual let 
it be !" Whether or not, as was alTerted in Con- 
gress a few days since, seceflion was born with the 
federal Constitution, it surely died with the con- 
federate capitulation, and we the people mean to 
seal its sepulchre, and stand a sleepless guard, and 
set a conftant watch against its resurrection. This 
we accept and vindicate as the grand verdict of the 
affize of war. 

And if there be, as we believe, a Providence, and 
its ruling is pre-eminent in the results of war, then 
God has put his seal upon the compact of the 
Union ; it is his almighty power which "hath made 
and preserved us a nation," and henceforth the 
American who reads the words of holy Scripture : 
"The powers that be are ordained of God," will 
understand them in the light of his decisive teach- 
ing in these years of war, and know, without mis- 
take, where conscience must confess allegiance due, 
and bow down in obedience divinely sand:ioned to 
the national supremacy. 



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The preservation of their nationahty was neces- 
sary to the security, peace, and prosperity of the 
American people. The neceffity is founded in the 
fact of the physical unity of the country. The 
unity of a territory consists in its isolation by strong 
natural barriers from other portions of the earth ; 
in the close relation of its parts in mutual depend- 
ence, and in combination in a system of contribu- 
tions and compensations ; and in the absence of 
serious obstacles to free intercommunication. A 
land of such phyfical onenefs is an organism, con- 
structed for the accomplishment of functions which 
determine the relations, and subserve the welfare 
of the people inhabiting it. He who is founder, 
both of continents and nations, has secured his pur- 
poses in the course of history by the conformation 
of the globe. 

(i.) The isolation of a country makes it defensi- 
ble against invasion from abroad. While human 
nature rernains as human nature is, strong natural 
barriers against aggression will prove to be the in- 
dispensable conditions of the security of peoples. 
Mountains and oceans must be the guards that 
keep the peace. To supply their place, if these do 
not exist, by artificial means, the whole energy of 
nations must be developed and directed, with vast 
expense of material and men, with ruinous im- 
poverishment of the vital sources of national pros- 
perity. Too often in the mighty task the nation 
is exhausted, and falls an easy prey before the 



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covetous invader. In view of the present aspect 
of all Europe, and the events transpiring this very 
hour, these facts need not to be supported by labored 
argument, nor to be illustrated by far-fetched his- 
torical examples. 

(2.) The inter-dependence of the various por- 
tions of a country will make necessary the demand 
that it be the common posseffion of all the people, 
and that the common use of it be secured and 
regulated by a general government. Especially if 
the territory be widely extended, with parts ex- 
ceedingly diverse in their productions, will the 
posseffion of a common interest in it be conducive 
to the highest material, intellectual, and social de- 
velopment of the people. And as they come to 
underftand this fact, they will more and more 
tenaciously hold to their right and title in it. "All 
that a man hath will he give for his life." And 
if tlie neceffities of life are distributed in various 
portions of the land, the people will require free 
access to them, a commerce will be demanded, and 
common law to regulate it. 

But men will not be satisfied with bare exist- 
ence. If wealth may be derived, and with it, 
means of bodily ease and comfort, the appliances 
of mental culture and enjoyment, of social eleva- 
tion and refinement, in a word, all that we com- 
prehensively name civilization, the people will de- 
mand the opening of its sources, the freedom of 
its channels, to all who choose to seek it. As 
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civilization advances, creating demands for new 
and various material found only in foreign lands, 
enterprise will call for international commerce, 
and claim free outlets for the produce of all sec- 
tions, by road, and lake, and river, to the sea; and 
an inlet on just and equal terms for commodities 
and fabrics from distant industrial sources. 

The inference from all these facts is plain. 
Where a territory is one, the people must be one. 
The common defence, the common interest must 
be secured by union in a common nationality. If 
under the conditions presented by the oneness of a 
country, the people should consent to separate, and 
endeavor to abide in several petty nationalities, 
they would greatly hazard in the experiment their 
safety and their peace, and would most surely put 
narrow limits to their prosperity. That which, in 
such circumstances, makes national unity conducive 
to these ends, would equally make division des- 
trudlive of them. By forming several states behind 
a single natural frontier, the barriers against aggres- 
sion from abroad would be virtually thrown down. 
To gain access to the whole country a foreign foe 
would need to conquer only a single feeble sec- 
tion. This would invite invasion. Besides, at any 
moment, one section through temporary, or set- 
tled alienation, might be led to form alliance with 
the invader, to open voluntarily the gates of 
natural defence, to pass the intruder across its 
limits, and bring him to the indefensible boundary 



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of its neighboring section for purposes of plunder 
or of conquest. 

The common interests of the people of a coun- 
try, in its several portions, would necessarily be 
sacrificed by its partition under several independ- 
ent States. But nevertheless the circumstances 
would still remain, which make a common posses- 
sion, and use of all the country needful to all the 
people. And so inevitably envy and jealousy would 
provoke diflensions and strifes. 

The absence of all barriers, and the means of 
easy communication between the sections, would 
invite and lead to constant trespaffings, for which 
explanation and reparation would be demanded, 
and too often the grievances would meet with no 
redress, but remain the provoking cause of civil 
war. It needs no argument to prove that a peo- 
ple in such circumstances of confusion and strife 
could not hope to find material or means for great 
prosperity. 

These facts find confirmation in many histories; 
in none perhaps more full than in the history of 
Greece. In a country of marked unity several re- 
publics struggled for independent existence and 
development. The result was incelTant jealousy 
and rivalry, almost interminable collision and war. 
At one period Athens was supreme, at another, 
Sparta; at another, Thebes; until at last, weak in 
their division, enfeebled yet more by long con- 
tinued conflict, they were easily appropriated by 



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the Macedonian power. This empire, in its turn, 
divided and weakened by the Achaean league, 
steadily declined, and at last surrendered to the 
Roman arms. All that remained to keep alive 
the memory of claffic Greece was the insignificant 
province of Achaia. 

The knowledge of these principles of national 
life and well-being led the fathers of our nation to 
abandon the loose confederacy in which the States 
were first united, and to establish what they sug- 
gestively described as a "more perfect union." 
Washington expressed their practical convictions, 
when in his farewell address, he said : " The unity 
of government which constitutes you one people 
is now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main 
pillar in the edifice of your real independence, 
the support of your tranquillity at home, of your 
peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of 
that very liberty which you so highly prize." It 
was the irresistible force of these considerations 
that impelled the loyal people to reject the pro- 
posal of a peaceful separation of the States, which 
was so often suggested by so-called radical men, 
both of the North and South, and seemed to offer 
so simple and easy a solution of the difficulty 
between the sections. It was plausibly maintained 
that by amicable division of the country the 
Northern people could retain their nationality 
with universal freedom, while the Southern peo- 
ple could form their chosen confederacy with 



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negro slavery. Such a division was never sought 
in the only legitimate way, by appeal for the con- 
sent of the people. It is most certain that if it 
had been sought, it could not have been obtained. 
The intelligent people of the land most firmly be- 
lieved that two nations could never exist together 
on this soil in security, prosperity and peace. Nor 
could their foresight discover when and where 
dismemberment would cease if once, by their per- 
mission, it should begin. They accordingly pro- 
tested against secession, and determined to resist by 
force, if it were needful, the division of the coun- 
try. They saw in the liberty and wealth of this 
fair continent motives which would make a strong 
appeal to the spirit of despotism and cupidity in 
the breasts of foreign tyrants, and knew that a 
divided people would make the land an easy prey 
to the too eager invader. They therefore deter- 
mined to stand a massive unit, and present the 
menace of a nation's power to every envious eye. 
They also perceived the jealousy and hatred which 
had been gathering force for years, and working 
their result in sectional diffension, and knew full 
well that States which could not rest in harmony 
in a common government, would, when separate, 
find war inevitable. 

They accordingly determined to strengthen the 
federal bond, and repress the strifes of sections with 
the strong arm of national authority. They saw 
the common poiTefTion of the country would 



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make the nation great, and strong, and prosperous; 
they accordingly determined it should be entire, 
the property of all the people. It was this intelli- 
gent determination which pushed on the war to 
victory. The national success has saved the na- 
tional domain. 

Notwithstanding that, before the war, the coun- 
try was acknowledged to be, in a manner, the 
property of all the people, yet there were hin- 
drances to the common employment of its re- 
sources as effectually exclusive as any which might 
have been interposed by its division into rival 
sovereignties. The removal of these the war has 
incidentally accomplifhed in the destruction of 
slavery. To say nothing of the millions of negro 
laborers who had no permanent interest in the 
soil or its productions, the white laborer was prac- 
tically debarred from vast portions of the country. 
He could not enter them and put his hand to 
honest toil, without most hopeless competition 
with unpaid labor, most certain degradation of 
himself and his, to the low level of a chattel slave. 
To this the intelligent artisan could not abase him- 
self. With him, the manufacturing capitalist was 
necessarily excluded. 

To-day, thank God, there is no servile caste. 
The hand of toil may give itself to useful work, 
without the stain of servitude ; the sun-browned 
face may lift itself without the mark of shame, in 
every portion of the land. Nay! God has made 



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it so that they are thrice welcome who were once 
cast out as mean, and held in strong contempt as 
fellows with the laboring brute. Soon the anvil 
will stand beside the plough, the loom beside the 
cotton-gin, the refinery beside the sugar-press, and 
the interests of husbandman and artisan will meet 
and blend in one. 

The war has incidentally procured the assimila- 
tion of the civil and domestic institutions of the 
country. 

It is necessary to the stability of government 
that the domestic institutions of the people be 
homogeneous with it. If the government be 
monarchical the ariftocratic principle must shape 
all the relations of its subjects. If a government 
be popular, the democratic principle must pervade 
the forms of social life. For the institutions of the 
country will react upon the government. If they 
are similar the reaction will be conservative, if 
they are diffimilar it must prove destructive. In 
a monarchy, the aristocracy find it to their interest 
to sustain the Government, the commonality learn 
obedience to it by the discipline of feudal subjec- 
tion. On the contrary, the social equality of the 
people would soon create demands for political 
equality. If the Government will retain its char- 
acter the aristocracy must be sustained, and hold 
strength enough to keep the people down. If 
once the people rise in revolution against the social 
tyranny, they will not stay their hand until it grasps 



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the sceptre, flings off the crown, and overturns the 
throne. 

If, in a popular government, a social aristocracy- 
prevails, they will desire to introduce the aristo- 
cratic element, and seek exclusive privileges in the 
civil government. If they maintain their purpose 
and prove to be the stronger portion of the people, 
they will modify the government, or overthrow it 
to secure another more congenial. If the demo- 
cratic portion becomes the stronger, and the gov- 
ernment refuses to sweep away the exclusive 
privileges of the oppreffive class, they will rise 
against the government, and strive to supersede it 
with such an one as they shall choose and fashion 
to preserve their liberties. No man who knows 
but superficially the history of ancient Rome will 
hope to controvert these settled facts. Our fathers 
believed them firmly and knew their deep signifi- 
cance, and had them well in view, when they 
wrote in the Constitution : " The Congress shall 
guarantee to every State in this Union a republican 
form of government." 

The principles of our Government is democratic, 
its method is republican. The Government exists 
by the will of the people; it is administered in their 
interest, and is responsible to them. 

The principle of slavery is aristocratic, its method 
is despotic. It exists by the will of a class, it is 
employed for their sole benefit, and is responfible 
to municipal authority, wholly subservient to their 



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will. It accordingly creates an aristocracy. One 
could not be more effectually established by legal 
enadlments conferring the rank and titles of no- 
bility. The master becomes a petty lord, all rights 
and privileges are his : the slave becomes a vassal, 
he has no rights, he lives only to be used by the 
superior caste, to w^hich he is supposed to be by 
nature subject, and his labor to be due. Too cer- 
tainly the distinction between the mafter and the 
slave is succeeded by a broader distinction between 
proprietorship and labor. The free laborer, as well 
as the slave, is included in the servile caste, to be 
held in distant contempt by the gentry who do 
not soil their hands with work. 

In the light of these principles we may clearly 
see that slavery was incompatible with the genius 
of our free institutions. It introduced an ariftocratic 
element into a democratic economy, and, therefore, 
of neceffity caused confusion and antagonism. The 
reaction upon the Government was well nigh des- 
tructive. The slaveholding caste cherifhed a sense 
of superiority, not only over the slaves and white 
laborers of the South, but also over the people of 
the North, so largely devoted to labor on the soil 
and in the factory. It was no more than natural 
to this spirit that they should become impatient of 
a Government in which the common people 
shared • with them authority and rights. They 
came at last to assert political superiority. They 
demanded and expected peculiar privileges in the 

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Government, and endeavored to employ its adminis- 
tration for the furtherance of the peculiar interests 
of their class and section. And w^hen at last the 
people rose in refistance to these alTumptions, and 
signified their resolution to keep firm control of the 
Government, and declared that its agencies should 
not be subsidized by any class, but should be em- 
ployed in the equal interest of all classes, they v^ere 
ready to renounce allegiance to the Government, 
and attempt its overthrow. 

Meanwhile the race of slaves was multiplying 
with fearful rapidity. They had been already 
counted in millions, and no foresight could tell 
their ultimate number. They were accumulating 
tremendous power. The war has shown us that it 
was capable of organization and direction, and 
could have been brought to bear with prodigious 
energy by executive skill and rapid discipline. No 
man with intelligent assurance could deny that the 
day might come when a chieftain would appear 
to marshal the mighty host, and a sudden inspira- 
tion would inflame their passions, unite and ani- 
mate their purpose, exalt their courage, and send 
them forth to achieve their liberty. They may, 
like captive Israel in the house of bondage, have 
waited long for the coming leader, and the pro- 
pitious signs of their deliverance, but they surely 
would have come to them at last. Nor would it 
have been strange, if in the hour of their succefs, 
the Government which had so long in silence 



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witnefled and seemed to countenance their sore 
oppreffion, had felt the force of their just ven- 
geance. 

But these perils now are past. The war has 
ended slavery, and leveled aristocracy. And God, 
in that wise providence which works with marvel- 
lous fitness, as well as sure effect, has made the 
hand of labor strong to do the deed, and crowned 
the laborer's brow with the chiefest honors of the 
grand achievement. 

Finally : — The war has helped to complete in 
the American mind true ideas of civil govern- 
ment. 

We underfland and appreciate as we never did 
before the sandtity of government. It is ordained 
of God. Its effence is divine, its form is humart ; 
its authority is from heaven, its adminiflration is of 
men. Providence is directly connected with its 
establifhment, and orders all its changes. When 
once it is establifhed it demands submifHon in the 
name of its supreme author and founder. Obe- 
dience to its laws is conformity to the will of God, 
disobedience is rebellion. Until it comes to be 
administered so as to be no longer promotive, but 
subverfive, of its appointed ends, its subjects have 
no right of revolution. Even when it becomes 
entirely perverted, revolution is still a crime, unless 
all other methods of redress have been strenuously 
and patiently tried without avail ; and then, until 
strong promise of succefs can be discerned, and 



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firm alTurance gained that the Government, if over- 
thrown, can be replaced by one more faithful to 
its objects. These do6trines so signally confirmed 
by the providence of God in the ifiues.of the v^ar, 
are now a law to the conscience of the people. 

We have also advanced in our conception of the 
true objects of civil government. 

In the rejection of absolutism and civil aris- 
tocracy, and the formation of a democratic repub- 
lican polity, we fondly hoped that we had secured 
a system which would completely effect the ends 
of government, promoting in harmony the liberty 
of the individual citizen, and the order and well- 
being of society. We still believe the principles 
of our polity to be conservative of these ends. But 
we have learned that we must give them broader 
application, and increased efficiency. Unless we 
are blind to the teaching of the war, we will now 
accept as the high office of civil government, the 
protection of man as man, in the enjoyment of 
his natural right to the full development of his 
entire manhood, in all the efi^entials of his total 
welfare in the present and the future life, in all his 
relations to his fellow-men and to God. The vital 
importance and the grandeur of this object will be 
efiiimated in view of the value of man to himself, 
to his neighbor and to God. The value of man to 
himself is to be estimated by confideration of the 
possibilities of his nature as a material, intellectual, 
and spiritual being, his capacity for noble develop- 



37 

ment, eternal blefTedness and glory. His value to 
his neighbor is found in the relation which God 
has instituted between men, by virtue of which the 
elevation ^d well-being ot the individual con- 
tributes to every other member of society. The 
value of man to God coniists in the momentous fact 
that in his own development, and in his contribu- 
tions to the race, he glorifies his Maker and Re- 
deemer. 

The war has discovered decisive proof of the 
manhood of a class among us, not hitherto regarded 
universally as human, never fairly protected in the 
rights and privileges pertaining to them as men. 
We have seen that evidence which we never can 
deny that the negro is a man, by the possession 
not only of the conformation of the human ani- 
mal, but of the elTential qualities of the human 
mind and spirit. Nay, more ! In. his gentleness, 
meekness, long-suffering endurance and forgive- 
ness, his constancy and fidelity, his simple truth- 
fulness and enduring hope in the character and 
providence of God, we have seen the choicest 
fruits which grace produces in the human soul. 
Thenceforth Government must recognize him as 
a man, give him free scope for physical, mental, 
and spiritual growth and action ; preserve his 
tenure of material and means to realize his value to 
himself, to his countrymen, and to God. And God 
has put us under bonds to render him this justice. 
For in the vicifTitudes of war his Providence out 



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US in a peril that prompted us to ask the black 
man's aid in rescuing our own dear rights and 
privileges. And should we dare to deny him his, 
our cheeks should mantle with a hu^ of shame 
compared with which the darkness of his tawny 
skin would be a mark of honor. 

Once more: — We have learned by sore expe- 
rience that the nation which allows the power of 
Government to protect the authors of great wrong 
will not escape God's righteous judgments. God 
is the avenger of wrong. He will not always 
suffer it. And when his wrath is roused it will not 
cease to burn until even justice is exacted. There 
is no future state for nations. They must be pun- 
ished in the earth before their individuality is lost. 

This nation has come out of the fires of righteous 
retribution for the sin of slavery. 

We are not now afraid to say that American 
slavery was a crime. Once, through miftaken 
fidelity to what they thought to be the word of 
God, good men were constrained to make apology 
for it. Too easily they fell into the sad error of 
those theologians, who, at the advent of modern 
phyfical science, refused to accept its sure dis- 
coveries, and in the endeavor to save the traditional 
interpretation of some obscure fragments of Holy 
Scripture, perilled the faith of thinking men in the 
whole of it. By adhering to an exegesis which 
was eagerly employed to sustain an enormous evil, 
true and honest men helped to make infidels and 



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atheists. The Bible simply testifies that under cer- 
tain peculiar conditions, God once permitted for a 
time a certain form of servitude, and warrants 
only this conclufion, that a sort of bondage could 
once exist and not involve a sin. We were, there- 
fore, accustomed to say, with some good reason, 
that slavery is not a sin per se. But alas ! upon 
this slender basis American slavery was justified. Its 
advocates were wont to form their judgment on 
this abstrad:ion, when the thing before the Ameri- 
can conscience was a concrete reality. If God did 
once, for cause, permit a kind of servitude, the 
cause had ceased, and his permifiion gave no sanc- 
tion to such slavery as existed here. The institu- 
tions were not the same, their circumstances were 
totally diffimilar. In such a case no man of com- 
mon sense believes a precedent can hold. Servi- 
tude must own a heathen origin." It was not or- 
dained of God as the family or the state : it was 
permitted as polygamy. In the Hebrew common- 
wealth the mafter was allowed to own simply the 
labor of the servant, and that only for a limited 
period. The servant was protected in his person, 
in his right to his family, in all spiritual privileges. 
He could have his freedom at a price, at the end 
of a period fixed by law without a ransom. His 
welfare was so effectually secured that it was need- 
ful to provide by law for the case of one who, at 
the close of his period of service, should be so 
content with his condition as to choose to remain 



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a servant and cleave to his master and his house- 
hold. The Hebrew servant v^as not a chattel 
slave. Pradlically he was in the place of a minor 
ward, or even of an adopted child. This condition 
did not abolifh any natural right, or any mental or 
spiritual privilege. He could be a man, and a 
servant of Jehovah. Who does not know that 
American slavery was totally the reverse of this ; 
who does not know that the circumftances 
under which it was enforced upon the negro 
made neceffary to its enforcement the denial of 
every natural right, and almost every intellec- 
tual and religious privilege ? He could not, in 
this nineteenth century of light and liberty, and 
in this land of free institutions be kept a slave, 
unless held down to a state of degradation approxi- 
mate to the condition of a brute. Why then did 
we apologize for slavery in the abftract, when it 
could exist alone by concretion with these hideous 
wrongs ? 

But not only was apology for slavery found in 
the Hebrew Scriptures. The New Testament 
was made to give it sanction. But with what con- 
sistencv ? 

A form of servitude existed while our Lord was 
on the earth. He did not directly attack it. But 
he did treat it as he treated all other evils. He 
uttered principles in effential and eternal antago- 
nism with all such oppreffion and wrong. Why 
should he hew at the branches of iniquity, when 



41 

the axe was laid at the root of the tree. He 
taught the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood 
of man, the law of universal charity. No man 
could accept his teaching and remain consistently 
the owner of the flesh and blood, the destroyer 
of the natural rights of his fellow man. He came 
to die that he might redeem man from eternal 
death, and form him into the image of God, that 
in his body and his spirit he might glorify his 
Maker and Redeemer. To fulfil this end of his 
being no man could remain a chattel slave; he 
must be the owner of his body and his spirit, and 
have free scope for their complete development 
and action. He made a covenant with man for 
the salvation of his offspring. To ensure its condi- 
tions, man must be the owner and custodian of his 
children. Could American slavery confist with 
such a gospel as this, and claim the sanction of its 
author ? 

But one of the Apostles sent a slave to his 
Christian master. Yes, and sent with him a title- 
deed to the brotherhood which in itself annulled 
every opprellive element of servitude. 

The man who has studied the exigencies of 
slavery in this country knows full well that obe- 
dience to the spirit and the precepts of Jesus 
Christ would have brought the institution to a 
certain end. Conformity to these would have 
surely furnished the conditions, under which the 
negro would have become both eager and able to 
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demand and vindicate his liberty. The guards that 
stood between him and his freedom, were planted 
in defiance of every principle of Christianity, and 
stood a perpetual insult to its Author. 

When, therefore, the accursed thing was not 
simply tolerated, but defended ; not regretfully 
continued until wise means for its abolishment 
could be provided, but claimed to be by divine 
right perpetual, when it was declared to be the 
peculiar million of the people of this country to 
conserve it and extend it; then the cup of iniquity 
was full, and God could no longer suspend his judg- 
ments. 

The nation endeavored to excuse itself because 
slavery was municipal, and they who were directly 
connected with it were alone accountable. But 
the conscience of the people could not long ahsolve 
itself, the conscience of the world held them re- 
sponlible. The nation had permitted the planting 
and growth of slavery, adopted laws which involved 
a sanction of it, defended it with the whole power 
of Government. The nation was implicated in the 
crime ; it shared the fearful retribution. By solemn 
discipline we now have learned that a people can- 
not countenance sin and expect the favor of a just 
Providence. They may compromise with wrong, 
they cannot compromise with God. 

Such, fathers and brethren, are some of the grand 
results of the war. 

It has establifhed our nationality in the su- 



43 

premacy of the Federal Union, and the tenure of 
an undivided and unique domain ; providing the 
conditions of security from foreign foes, of internal 
prosperity and peace. It has opened all portions of 
the land to the enterprise and industry of all the 
people, and so created a common interest in it, 
and prepared the way for the full delopment of its 
resources. It has affimilated our civil and domes- 
tic institutions, and so secured the harmonious 
working of our republican economy. It has formed 
in the mind of the people true ideas of the sanctity, 
the objects, and the ethics of government. It has 
put an end to a public crime which forfeited the 
favor of God and the protection of his providence. 
It has admitted millions of human souls to liberty, 
and light, and hope. 

And shall we say that these results are not vital 
to the highest interests of every inhabitant of this 
land ? Nay ! rather do they not enter into the ac- 
complifliing purposes of Him who has appointed a 
mission for the nation, and is leading them to 
accept and discharge it ; and even into the broader 
plan by which he is working out in his own way 
and time the destinies of all mankind ? Surely 
then, God has made the war to be, what we most 
earnestly prayed and hoped it might become, a 
bleffing to the nation and the race. 

It is true, we do not see at once the full fruition 
of our hopes. These voluntary forces that have 
been called forth and set in motion cannot be im- 



44 

mediately revoked and quieted, but notwithstand- 
ing their persistent energy and oppofition, under 
God's good leading, they will resolve themselves 
in that resultant line which leads to the fulfilment 
of our expecStation. We shall be one in the free 
unity of confidence, esteem and love, as we now 
are one by stress of power. Only let us be patient, 
confiderate, forgiving, generous ; taking counsel of 
God and following the tokens of his will ; and 
time will moderate the paffions now so restless and 
disturbing, and correct the judgments now so diverse 
and opposite, and we shall come to harmony and 
rest at last. 

To the success of this grand cause which to-day 
we have contemplated, the College of New Jersey 
has made no mean contribution. Many of her 
sons have been pre-eminent in the work of instruct- 
ing the public mind in the true import and issues 
of the crisis. These have gone forth from this 
seat of learning destined to become claffic in the 
literature of civil science. Others of our brethren 
have stood in the councils of the state and nation; 
or have served most efientially the common cause 
in the labors of the Christian and Sanitary Com- 
missions. 

But we especially commemorate to-day those 
who rendered service in the army of the country. 
Taking up the roll of honor, and tracing out the 
names of those once connected with the College, 
as far as we have been able to discover about one 



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hundred of our brethren were alTociated with the 
service. We count four Major- Generals, Boyle, 
Blair, Belknap and Van Cleve ; one Brigadier 
General, three Colonels, four Lieutenant-Colonels; 
the rest distributed through every arm of the 
service, holding every rank, down to the common 
soldier.* The living we cannot attempt to name 
in this address. They are not unknown, and un- 
cherished by their grateful countrymen and breth- 
ren. The mournful roll of the dead we call. These 
are they who won the crown of martyrdom : 

Colonel Cornelius W. Tolles. — He was graduated 
in 1848, was appointed in July 1861, Assistant Ad- 
jutant General of the First New Jersey detached 
brigade, by Governor Olden. August 17th, he 
became First-Lieutenant in the Thirteenth In- 
fantry of the regular army. August 20th, 1862, 
he affumed the poiition of Chief Quartermaster of 
the Sixth Army Corps, and held it under Generals 
Franklin, Sedgwick and Wright. The prestige of 
the Sixth Corps is said by competent authority to 
have been measurably due to his ability and fidelity. 
He was under fire in nearly all the battles of the 
Army of the Potomac. He saved the materiel of 
the army at the retreat to Harrison's Landing, and 
at the retrograde movement from Centreville to 
Drainsville, and laid the pontoon bridge at Fred- 
ericksburg for Franklin's Corps. General Meigs 

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paid a flattering tribute to his worth in a general 
order, and the Secretary of War mentioned his 
name with honor in his report. He was a man of 
strong, active and pohshed mind, of warm affec- 
tions, high toned principles, self-reliant and brave, 
yet modest and considerate of others. While act- 
ing as Chief Quartermaster on General Sheridan's 
Staff, surrounded by a small escort of twenty-five 
men, guarding a single ambulance, himself un- 
armed, he was shot, and died October iith, 1864. 

[New Orleans, La., Oct. 20, 1866. 
Dear Sir : — * * * The ability, energy and per- 
severance displayed by Colonel Tolles, while sur- 
rounded as he was during the time he served in 
the Valley, by the innumerable difficulties which 
naturally attend an army newly and quickly or- 
ganized, stamped him as one of the ablest officers 
in his department. I cannot say too much in his 
praise. * * * 

Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

P. H. SHERIDAN, 
Major-GeneralU.S.A. 
Prof. H. C. Cameron, 

College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J.] 

2. Dr. Joseph A. Freeman was born at Paterson, 
New Jersey, and graduated with one of the honors 
of the College in 1852. He received the degree 
of Doctor of Medicine in 1856. He was first 



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Assistant Surgeon, and afterwards Surgeon of the 
Thirteenth New Jersey Volunteers. Subsequently 
as United States Affistant Surgeon, he was in charge 
of a general hospital at Nashville, where he died 
of disease contracted w^hile in discharge of his self- 
sacrificing duties, at the age of 31, December 29th, 
1864. He was efteemed by those who knew him 
for rare intellectual, moral and social qualities. 

3. Adjutant Richard M. Strong was born at Al- 
bany, N. Y., June loth, 1835, and graduated in 
1854. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar. He 
entered the army from most peremptory convic- 
tions of duty. He was first appointed a member 
of the Staff of General Rathbone, and afterward 
entered upon active service in the field as Adjutant 
of the One-hundred-and-seventy-seventh New 
York Volunteers. He accompanied the Banks 
expedition, and died of disease contracted on the 
low lands of Louisiana, May 12th, 1863. We re- 
member him as a gifted and accomplished scholar, 
an urbane and finished gentleman, a warm and con- 
stant friend, a simple, earnest, active, consecrated 
follower of Jesus Christ. 

4. Captain Henry Harrison Woolsey was born 
at Pennington, New Jersey, April ist, 1837, and 
graduated in 1856. He was admitted to the bar 
in 1859. During August, 1861, he entered as a 
private soldier in the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers, 
but was almost immediately appointed Second Lieu- 
tenant. He acted as Quartermaster in the Penin- 



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sular campaign. At the battle of Williamsburgh 
he was in the thickest of the fight, and for gallantry 
was made a First Lieutenant. He was in all the 
campaigns conducted by General McClellan. His 
first wound was received in August, 1862. At the 
battle of Chancellorsville he was in command of 
his regiment, and was slightly wounded. He re- 
ceived a third wound at Gettysburg. From No- 
vember, 1 862, to May, 1864, he was detached from 
his regiment and served as Provost Marshal of the 
First Congrefilonal Diftrict of New Jersey. His 
efforts were of great value in the work of rein- 
forcing the army. He afterwards joined his regi- 
ment, and was mortally wounded, i8th of June, 
before Petersburg. Under the tender and affec- 
tionate care of Dr. Edward L. Welling, also a 
graduate of the College, he passed away, saying, 
" I die in the glorious cause. I feel that I have 
not lived in vain for this world or the world to 
come." The tidings of his death reached his 
family while they were surrounding the grave of 
his young and lovely wife. The interment was 
partially completed, and the place was guarded 
until the remains of the hufband were brought 
home and laid in the same consecrated earth. 

Henry Woolsey was one who cannot be forgot- 
ten — a gentle, cheerful, loving, faithful spirit, that 
has left memorials in many hearts that will not 
perifh. He was an humble, faithful believer in Jesus 
Christ. 



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5- Captain Thomas R. Haines was born in Suffex 
county, in New Jersey, and graduated in 1857. 
Before entering the service he was admitted to the 
bar, and entered his profeffion with unusual pros- 
pects. He was offered the poiition of First Lieu- 
tenant of First New Jersey Cavalry, and after- 
wards served by promotion as Captain. His ability 
and fidelity were commended by all his superior 
officers. He fell by a piftol shot, and a blow of 
the sabre, June 6th, 1862, at Harrisonburg, Va. 
• He possessed a clear, vigorous, and retentive mind, 
a frank, sincere, genial dispofition. His Christian 
character was gentle, earnest, pure. Few blows 
made so many hearts to bleed as that which laid 
him low. 

6. Captain Cortlandt Van Renfi^elaer was born 
June 5th, 1838, and graduated in 1858, and was 
class orator. He was admitted to the bar of New 
Jersey. Early in the year 1861 he was appointed 
First Lieutenant of theThirteenth Infantry, United 
States Army. At the close of the year 1862 he 
was promoted to a Captaincy. He was actively 
engaged at the siege of Vickfburg, and in subse- 
quent battles with General Sherman. He died 
October 7th, 1864. His mind was vigorous, logi- 
cal, comprehensive, and cultured in a high degree. 
To strangers he was reserved, to friends warm and 
true. He became a believer in Christ before his 
death, and departed in peace and hope. 

7. Lieutenant Josiah S. Studdiford was born at 

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Lambertville in 1837, and graduated in 1858. He 
soon after commenced the practice of law. He 
was appointed Adjutant of the Fourth New Jersey 
Volunteers, and accepted the polition, saying to his 
friends, "Many families are giving their sons to 
the country. There are five of us brothers. We 
have no representative in the army. Two are in 
the ministry. One is a physician. The other is 
too young. I can go — I ought to go." At the 
battle of Gaines' Mill he was taken prisoner. He 
fell at the battle of South Mountain. His Colonel 
wrote: "I have lost my best officer." To the at- 
tractions of a choice natural character he added 
the graces of a Christian life. 

8. Colonel Abm. Zabrifkie was born February 
1 8th, 1 841, and graduated in 1859. In Septem- 
ber, 1861, he was appointed Adjutant of the Ninth 
New Jersey Regiment. He accompanied Burn- 
side's expedition to North Carolina. In December, 

1862, he became Lieutenant-Colonel; in January, 

1863, Colonel and Acting Brigadier-General. 
February, 1864, his term of service expired. At 
his solicitation the regiment re-enlisted. On the 
1 6th of May, while at the right wing of General 
Butler's army, he was wounded, and died May 
24th, 1864. A resolution of the Common Council 
of his native city says: "One will fail to find 
a braver, purer, or more self-sacrificing spirit." 

9. Captain Charles H. Dod was born in Prince- 
ton, June 13th, 1 841, and graduated in 1862. He 



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soon after entered the army as First Lieutenant of 
the Second New Jersey Cavalry. After a severe 
campaign in the South-west he was transferred to 
the Army of the Potomac, and served as Assistant 
Adjutant General on General Hancock's staff. 
Prostrated by disease, he died August 27tli, 1864. 
His nature was gentle and beautiful. Grace devel- 
oped in him the noble qualities of his manhood. 
For only a few lost can we mourn as we did for 
him. He sleeps with his fathers in the consecrated 
ground near which we now are gathered. 

10. Colonel Hugh Janeway did not graduate. 
He entered the army at twenty years of age, as 
First Lieutenant of the First New Jersey Cavalry, 
immediately after the first Bull Run repulse. He 
rose by acts of gallantry, through the grades of Cap- 
tain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, to Colonel. In 
December, 1861, in a raid near Alexandria, he re- 
ceived eight slug and bullet wounds. The enemy 
were about to kill him, but seeing his wounds, left 
him to die. He summoned strength and crawled 
to his regiment. At Chancellorsville a bullet 
grazed his forehead, touching his forehead with 
his hand, another ball took off his finger. After 
the fall of Petersbug and Richmond, in a charge 
near Painesville, while rallying his men, a ball 
pierced his temple and he fell. He was a kind, 
thoughtful, upright, sincere and truthful man — 
a calm, courageous, energetic officer. He was a 
Christian. When I remember these last two 



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spirits, they do not seem to have been made for 
war. But the leflbn of their heroism is precious. 
There is a courage in the gentle soul, more noble 
and enduring far, than the impulse of brute paffion, 
and the momentum of unguided will. 

These are our own lamented and honored dead.* 

Will your patience yet suffer one word more 
concerning those who, living or dead, are not 
usually named on the lists of fame. I mean the 
private soldiers of the rank and file. 

By clear perception, prompt forethought, sharp 
sagacity, practical judgment, versatility and endur- 
ance, the American soldier stands far beyond any 
other soldier yet developed in the school of war. 
Study the march of Sherman from the river to the 
sea, and know that if comprehenlive intellect 
planned most marvellously, the readiness, patience, 
self-sacrifice, the energy, perseverance, ready re- 
sources, implicit obedience, and unqualified cour- 
age of the private soldier, converted the com- 
mander's plans into achievements. Trace the pro- 
gress of the great Captain's movement on his chosen 
line, and know that if irrefistible will did compel a 
way through seeming impoffibility to success, it was 
because self-devoting fidelity recoiled before no 
bloody sacrifice. 

My countrymen, be not unmindful of the com- 
mon soldier. Those of us who have been with 

*See In Memorjam, 



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him at the lonely picket post, and in the busy- 
camp, in winter's quiet, and on the eve of battle, 
in scenes of peril and in the praying tent, or round 
the homely communion board, have found it in 
our hearts to reverence the man w^ho went for the 
work and not the circumftance of war; the cause 
and not the honors of the country, and stood with- 
out the sound of title and the blaze of uniform, 
the worn, browned, scarred soldier of the rank and 
file. 

If it be my lot to live until years pass over me, 
and little ones shall cluster round my feet to hear 
an old man's story of the war, I may tell them 
with infirmity of pride, not unpardonable even 
now, how I sat in familiar intercourse with the 
great leader and martyr of the country's cause ; 
and stood befide the great Captain, as with finger 
on his chart, he traced the movements of the 
grand campaign ; and took by the hand the men 
whose counsels in the cabinet and field preserved 
the fruits of victory. But the tale will not be 
complete until I boast with grateful pride that my 
voice was given to plead for the commiffion of 
noble Christian men who carried home and sanc- 
tuary to the battle-field, and camp and hospital ; 
that I have shared the common soldier's couch and 
fare ; these hands have ministered to his needs upon 
the bed of pain, and broken for him the bread of 
life. 

Verily, they all shall have their due reward. 



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Living ! — a nation points to them with gratitude as 
its deliverers ; millions of dufky hands are lifted 
for them to heaven with heartfelt benedid;ions. 
Voices come echoing across the sea from the op- 
pressed and struggling of every land: "Ye have 
made new ground for the anchor of our, wavering 
hope." 

Dead ! — they sweetly sleep. The tongue of 
gratitude speaks tenderly their names, the hand of 
affection treasures their sacred dust. And if they 
were true to God as well as country, they have 
gone to the embrace of Him who knows what it 
is to suffer and to die for others, to blend the lefTer 
lustre of their honor with the eternal splendor of 
the Redeemer's glory. 



IN MEMO RI AM 



BY 



PROF. HENRY C. CAMERON. 



I, Captain Henry C. Bartlett, son of Gamaliel 
and Mary Bartlett, was born at Stanhope, N. J., 
April loth, 1827. He was graduated in the Cen- 
tennial Class of Nassau Hall, in 1847, and studied 
law with Peter T. Woodbury, Esq., of New York 
city, where he was admitted to the bar. He prac- 
tised his profeffion for sometime and then became a 
banker and broker in New York. He was quite 
successful in bufmess, retired and spent a year in 
Texas. On the breaking out of the war he was 
refiding in Caldwell, N. J. After the battle of 
Bull Run he enlisted a company, and was muftered 
into service in the 7th New Jersey Volunteers, Au- 
gust 28th, 1 86 1. He participated in all the battles 
in which the Army of the Potomac was engaged, 
commanded his regiment in the seven days' fight 
before Richmond, and by his gallantry won the 



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encomiums of his commanding officers. His 
health failed in consequence of his exposure at 
the battle of Frederickfburg, and he resigned 
January 14th, 1863. Upon the reftoration of his 
health he was appointed Captain, and affisted in 
the organization of the 33d New Jersey Volunteers. 
He was with the regiment in all its engagements 
in the South- West, and in the march from Chat- 
tanooga to Atlanta, until May 8th, 1864, when he 
was mortally wounded while gallantly leading a 
battalion against the enemy's works at V Dug Gap," 
near Dalton, Georgia. He died the next morn- 
ing. Thus fell one whom his numerous friends 
will long remember for his genial character, social 
disposition, devoted patriotism, and well-tried cour- 
age. 

2. Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac K. Casey, son of 
the Hon. Joseph Casey, Chief Justice of the Court 
of Claims, was born in Pennsylvania, January 17th, 
1844. Colonel Casey was educated at home until 
he was prepared to enter upon his higher acade- 
mic studies at Princeton, in the College of New 
Jersey, where he remained more than two years. 
Shortly after leaving College he entered the 
army, in response to the summons which, in 
the year 1861, caused so many others among 
our gallant youth to fly to arms, in defence of 
the country. In his patriotic and military en- 
thusiasm he volunteered at first as a private soldier. 



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but was afterwards appointed a Lieutenant of cav- 
alry by Governor Curtin, and subsequently by 
President Lincoln, an aid-de-camp, with the rank 
of Captain. He served in the army more than 
four years, on the staffs, succeffively, of General 
Sturgis, General Casey and General Carter. He 
participated in many battles of the war, among 
which were the second battle of Bull Run, the 
battles of South Mountain, Antietam and Frede- 
ricksburg, on the occasion of Burnside's attack, 
in which last-named encounter he was slightly 
wounded. Twice brevetted for gallant and meri- 
torious services, he left the army in the year 1866, 
with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, purposing to 
carry into a life of business the same energy which 
he had brought to his duty as a soldier, when he 
was suddenly arrested by consumption, and stricken 
down in the full flufh of manly vigor, and at the 
very threshold of his career in life. Patient in 
suffering, he died in the full confidence of Chris- 
tian hope, at Washington, D. C, March 5th, 1867. 

3. Dr. Ferdinand V. Dayton, son of the Hon. 
William L. Dayton and Margaret (Van Derveer) 
Dayton, was born in Freehold, N. J., July 29th, 
1834. Prepared for College by Dr. John Wood- 
hull, of Freehold, New Jersey, he entered the 
Sophomore Class, at Princeton, in 1851, and was 
graduated in 1854. He pursued his medical 
studies in Trenton, New Jersey, in Philadelphia, 
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and in Europe, and received his degree of M. D. 
at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1857, -^^ 
practised his profession in Trenton, N. J., Gow^- 
anus, N. Y., PhiUpfburg, N, J., and Mauch 
Chunk, Pa. He entered the service as Affistant 
Sur'geon, ist New^ Jersey Cavalry, and participated 
in its many engagements on the Potomac and in 
the Shenandoah Valley. Appointed Surgeon, 2d 
Nev7 Jersey Cavalry, July 12th, 1863, he served 
in the West and South until muftered out, October 
24th, 1865, He was in the campaigns against 
Forrest, under Generals A, J, Smith and Sturgis, 
and in the Missouri campaign, under General 
Pleasanton. From March 31st to May 17th, 

1864, he acted as Surgeon-in-chief, Cavalry Divis- 
ion, 1 6th Army Corps, and from February nth, 

1 865, until muftered out, he was Surgeon in charge 
of the district of Natches, Miss. On March 20th, 

1866, he was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for 
meritorious services. His faithful discharge of his 
duty won for him the confidence of his com- 
manders. His death, which was sudden and un- 
expected, occurred at Natchez, November ist, 
1866. 

4. Dr. William P. Grier, only son of the Hon. 
Robert C. Grier, Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, was born in Allegheny 
City, Pa., December 17th, 1834. He was pre- 
pared for College by Dr. Samuel Crawford, of 



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Philadelphia, and was for a short time connecfted 
with the University of Pennsylvania. In Septem- 
ber, 1 85 1, he entered Brown University, and in 
the winter of 1852 he entered the College of New 
Jersey. Here he remained about a year and then 
became an Assistant Civil Engineer on the Sun- 
bury and Erie Railroad. He subsequently studied 
medicine with Dr. Joseph Carson, of Philadelphia, 
and received the degree of M. D. from the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1858. He was, for some- 
time, a phyfician at the Blockley Almshouse, and 
afterwards one of the resident physicians of the 
Proteflant Episcopal Hospital, in Philadelphia. 
He engaged in private practice in Philadelphia, 
and subsequently in Peoria, 111., where he was very 
successful. After the battle of Fort Donelson, 
he volunteered, and labored in the field and in the 
hospital. He was appointed Affistant Surgeon in 
the United States Army, July 23d, 1 862, and served 
in the Army of Virginia, on the field at the second 
battle of Bull Run, in the Affistant Surgeon-Gen- 
eral's office, and in the hospital at Wafhington; 
was then ordered to the Chester hospital, Pennsyl- 
vania, and finally to the Medical Director's office 
in Philadelphia, where he discharged his duties 
faithfully and energetically until after the close of 
the war. He was assigned to the Department of 
Arkansas, October 23d, 1865, and while on his way 
to join his regiment, the 3d United States Cavalry, 
he was blown up on the steamer Miami, near the 
mouth of the Arkansas river, January 28th, 1866. 



6o 

Dr. Grier married Miss Caroline Smith, daugh- 
ter of Isaac Smith, Esq., of Philadelphia, in Feb- 
ruary, 1865. Mrs. Grier died in December, 1865. 
Dr. Grier was a man of fine personal appearance, 
of exuberant spirits, great kindness and generosity 
of heart. His later experience in life, and upon 
the battle field, had developed the finer traits of 
his chara(fter. His courageous and faithful dis- 
charge of his duties, won for him not only the 
approval of his superior officers, but the grateful re- 
collection of those whom he so affiduously attended, 
and his friends lovingly cherifh his memory. 

5. Lieutenant- Colonel Thomas M. Hall, son 
of the Rev. John H^ll, D. D., was born in Phila- 
delphia, June 2d, 1835. He was graduated at 
Nafiau Hall, in 1853, studied law with the Hon, W. 
M. Meredith, of Philadelphia, and was admitted 
to the bar in Odtober, 1856. His character for in- 
tegrity and earneftness of purpose, and his attain- 
ments in his profeffion were such as to win the 
respect of his afibciates, the confidence of the 
courts, and the hearty friendihip of all who knew 
him. Although in feeble health his patriotism 
induced him to enter the service of his country, 
and in August, 1862, he became Adjutant of the 
I2ist Pennsylvania Volunteers. In the field his 
bravery was conspicuous. At Frederickfburg he 
was in General Meade's Division, which broke 
through the rebel lines. His horse was shot under 



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him. At Chancellorsville and Gettysburg his con- 
duct was such, that coupled with the discharge of 
his duties as Adjutant, it recommended his promo- 
tion. His brother officers requefted his appoint- 
ment as Major, and he subsequently became 
Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment. But the 
fatigues and exposure of the field developed the 
disease which had long lurked in his conftitution. 
Broken down in health he was compelled reluc- 
tantly to refign, and returned home to linger for a 
while among friends and then to die. Simple and 
unostentatious in his piety, faithful and conscien- 
tious in the discharge of his duties in civil and in 
military life, his devotion to his country led to his 
death, November 6th, 1864, 

6. Henri S. Holden, was born in Hingham, 
Mass., August 31st, 1841. He was prepared for 
College by the Rev. J. F. Pingrey, of Newark, N. 
J., and entered the Sophomore Class of Princeton 
College in i860. He was one of the first scholars 
in his class, but left College and joined the army 
in September, 1862. His military service cul- 
minated in Burnside's attack upon Fredericks- 
burg. At the expiration of his term of service, in 
1863, he entered the Theological Seminary at 
Princeton, N. J. His devotion to the cause of his 
country laid the foundation of that disease which 
gradually developed itself and ended his career, 
November loth, 1864. His fine talents and excel- 



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lent scholarfhip had been consecrated to his Re- 
deemer, and this consecration and his Christian 
faith were the consolations of his dying hour. 

7. Adjutant ,G. Drummond Hunt, Jr., son of 
G. Drummond Hunt, and Catharine A. Hunt, 
was born near Lexington, Ky., April 24th, 1842. 
He was for a time connected with Transylvania 
University, Ky., and previous to his entering Col- 
lege at Princeton he studied at Plainfield, N. J. 
From a deep and urgent sense of duty he enlisted 
in the service of his country in the spring of 1862, 
as First Lieutenant, 4th Kentucky Volunteers, of 
which his brother, P. Burgess Hunt, was Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel. General Fry selected him as his 
AcSting Affistant Adjutant General, and in this 
position he served during the movements before 
Corinth. In October, 1862, he was appointed 
Inspector of the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 14th 
Army Corps, and in April, 1863, he was commis- 
sioned Adjutant of the 3d Kentucky Volunteers, 
and shared its gallant fortunes. In the battle of 
Chickamauga his valor was so conspicuous that he 
received the special commendation, not only of 
his brigade and divilion commanders, but that of 
Major- General Thomas himself. He seized the 
colors of a routed regiment, in the vicinity of his 
own, succeeded in rallying them, and was gratified 
by seeing them return and fight most gallantly. In 
the battle of Miffion Ridge, November 25th, his 



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gallantry was even more marked. In the charge 
he led his regiment, and was twenty yards in ad- 
vance of every one, and within one hundred and 
fifty yards of Bragg's headquarters, where he pro- 
posed to plant his State flag which he bore in his 
hand. But in the moment of anticipated victory 
he fell, mortally wounded, and died, November 
29th, 1863. Thus fell as "noble, pure and gallant 
a youth as ever yielded up life in the cause of his 
countrv." Gentle and modest in chara6ter, affec- 
tionate in dispofition, genial in manners, he was a 
universal favorite. A Christian from his youth, 
his piety bore the trying test of the camp unin- 
jured, and he died a Christian partriot and soldier. 

8. Dr. Webster Lindsley, son of Dr. Harvey 
and Emeline C. Lindsley, was born in Washing- 
ton, 'D. C, October 6th, 1835. Prepared in several 
academies, he spent some time at the Columbian 
College, near Wafhington, D. C, then entered the 
College at Princeton, N. J., where he was gradu- 
ated in 1855. He pursued his professional studies 
with his father, and attended medical lectures at 
Harvard University, from which he received the 
degree of M. D., in 1857. -^^ immediately sailed 
for Europe, and spent two years in Paris, in arduous 
study, and in unremitting attendance upon the 
medical lectures, and in the hospitals. He returned 
home thoroughly qualified for the duties of his 
profeflion, and at once began a successful practice. 



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He was selected by the Government and the 
Colonization Society to take charge of a ship load 
of re-captured Africans, and restore them to their 
native land. He successfully accomplished this 
commiffion and returned from Liberia in Decem- 
ber, i860. May 28th, 1 861, he was appointed 
Affistant Surgeon in the United States Army, and 
after service in various hospitals, he took the field 
with the 1 8th United States Infantry, and served 
in the grand armies of Rosecrans and Thomas, in 
Kentucky and TennefTee, Alabama and Mississippi. 
He was present at many of the most important 
battles in the West, in 1862-3, especially at Shiloh, 
and subsequently at Murfreefboro', where his regi- 
ment saved the fortunes of the day, though half 
its number fell. His devotion to duty and the 
character of his services subsequently secured his 
promotion as Major, November 3d, 1865. After 
the conclusion of hostilities he had charge of hos- 
pitals at Cincinnati, Charleston, Wafliington and 
Richmond. He had charge of the post hospital 
at Richmond during the last eight months of his 
life. He was faithfully performing his duties 
when, on July 14th, 1866, he was suddenly at- 
tacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, which 
was followed by a slow, deep fever that never left 
him. He was removed to his home in Wafhing- 
ton, D. C, and expired beneath his father's roof, 
August 8th, 1866. A child of many prayers, he 
ever bore the Bible with him, and revered the 



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ordinances of religion. Gentleman-like in his 
manners, practical in his cast of mind, almost in- 
tuitive in his judgment, and quick and accurate in 
his perceptions, he was admirably fitted for the 
profession to which he was so enthufiastically 
devoted. He is mourned for as an only son. 

9. Colonel Henry Boyd McKeen, son of Hen- 
ry McKeen, was born in Philadelphia, Septem- 
ber 1 8th, 1835, and was graduated at Nassau Hall 
in 1853. He was one of the most gallant of those 
younger officers who fell during General Grant's 
campaign in the spring and summer of 1864. He 
entered the army, as Adjutant of the Thirty-first 
Pennsylvania, October 27th, i86i,andwas pres- 
ent in every engagement of the Army of the Poto- 
mac, from Williamburg, in 1862, until his death 
at Cold Harbor, in 1864. Promoted Major for 
gallantry at Fair Oaks, he soon became Colonel of 
his regiment and commanded the ist Brigade, 2d 
Division, 2d Army Corps, at the time of his death. 
He was wounded in the seven days' fight, at 
Fredriecksburg, and at Chancellorsville. At Cold 
Harbor his brigade actually held their pofition 
within fifteen yards of the enemy's works, and so 
murderous was the fire of these eight hundred men 
that all the efforts of the enemy could not dislodge 
them. His pofition was so perilous that he could 
not retreat, and he could not be relieved save by a 
"sap" or zigzag trench from the main line of 

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works to his. Thus the men were at length res- 
cued, but their gallant leader, while preparing to 
relist an alTault, had fallen, pierced by the bullet of 
a sharp fhooter. The three hundred of Thermopylse 
perifhed, but the leader of the eight hundred of 
Cold Harbor, while saving the lives of his men, 
gave up his own. 

ID. Adjutant Samuel Hepburn Pollock, the 
son of the Hon. James Pollock, and grandson of 
Samuel Hepburn, Esq., was born in Milton, North- 
umberland county. Pa., October 23d, 1838. Having 
prepared for College, he entered Nassau Hall, and 
was graduated in 1859. He shortly afterwards 
entered the law office of his father and continued 
the prosecution of his studies until the breaking 
out of the rebellion, in the spring of 1861, when 
he haftened to the capital of his native State to 
offer his services in defence of his country. A few 
months after he became the Private Secretary of 
his father, who had been appointed Director of the 
United States Mint, at Philadelphia. Here he 
remained in the faithful discharge of his duties 
until after the unfortunate Peninsula campaign, 
when his patriotism impelled him to offer his 
services a second time. Appointed Adjutant of the 
131st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, with 
his command he hastened to the defence of Wash- 
ington after the disaftrous battle of the second Bull 
Run. His regiment was incorporated into the 



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Army of the Potomac, and participated in its his- 
tory — noble in defeat and glorious in victory. He 
was present at many of the most terrible battles of 
the war — at the victory of Antietam and the battle 
of Fredericksburg, where his Colonel commanded 
a brigade and he directed the movements of his re- 
giment in that bloody conflict. At the close of the 
war, in which he exhibited conspicuous courage, 
he gladly returned to peaceful pursuits. He had 
endured the hardships of the war and palTed safely 
through the dangers of the field only to fall at 
home, by the hand of disease. Gentle and loving 
in disposition, yet of great strength of character 
and firmness of purpose, the best commentary upon 
his religious principles is the fact that he returned 
from the camp pure in heart and uncontaminated 
in life. He died at Philadelphia, on the 25th of 
October, 1865, aged twenty-seven years. 

1 1 . William Sergeant, son of the Hon. John Ser- 
geant and Margaretta (Watmough) Sergeant, was 
born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 29th, 1829. He 
was prepared for College by the Rev. Mr. Craw- 
ford, principal of the Grammar School of the 
University of Pennsylvania. He entered Princeton 
College in 1845, where his father and his maternal 
grandfather had been educated, and was graduated 
in the Centennial Class of NafTau Hall in 1847. 
He studied law with his father, was admitted to 
the bar in 1850, eledied to the Legislature of Penn- 



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sylvania in 1852, and in 1855 was appointed Sec- 
retary to the Commissioners of Bankruptcy. His 
manly integrity and genial character secured him 
many warm personal friends, and in the discharge 
of his duties as a Master in Chancery, to which 
branch of his profeffion he chiefly applied himself, 
he secured the confidence of the Supreme Court 
of his native State, and his reports won the highest 
encomiums of his fellow-lawyers. When the war 
broke out he offered his services to the Govern- 
ment, and was appointed Captain in the 1 2th 
Infantry, United States Army. He spent some time 
in recruiting, and then accompanied his regiment 
in the campaign of the Peninsula, in 1862, par- 
ticipating in the siege of Yorktown, and especially 
in the battles of Gaines' Mills, June 27th, and Mal- 
vern Hill, June 30th, 1862. He was in the move- 
ment under General Pope in Virginia, and present 
in General McClellan's campaign in Maryland, 
which culminated at Antietam. One half of his 
regiment was lost in these campaigns, and his ex- 
posures so impaired his health that he was with- 
drawn from active service in November, 1862. 
Engaged in recruiting service for some time, in 
October, 1 863, he was placed on the staff of Colonel 
Burbank, his Brigade Commander, and served 
with the Army of the Potomac until December, 
1863. After various services he was appointed 
Colonel of the 210th Pennsylvania Volunteers, in 
September, 1864. He organized his command 



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and joined the Army of the Potomac, 2d Division, 
5th Army Corps, and participated in the move- 
ments in front of Peterlburg, particularly in the 
affair of the ** Boydtown Plank Road," Warren's 
raid on the Weldon Railroad, the second Hatch's 
Run, and the " Battle of the White Oak Road," 
March 31st, 1865, in which he was fatally wounded. 
He was sent home, but died upon the steamboat 
between City Point and Washington, D. C, April 
iith, 1865. His success as an officer was marked, 
and he was repeatedly complimented for his con- 
duct at the head of his regiment, and for his sol- 
dierlike and energetic handling of his brigade, 
which he repeatedly commanded. On the 8th of 
November, 1853, he married Miss Eliza, daughter 
of James S. Espy, Esq., of Harrisburg, Pa., who, 
with her five young daughters, survives, to mourn 
the too early loss of a beloved husband and 
father. 

1 2. Lieutenant John M. Williams, second son of 
Michael Magie and Sarah Williams, was born, 
June 20th, 1 841, at Elizabethtown, N. J. Pre- 
pared for College by the Rev. David H. Pierson, 
he entered the College of New Jersey, and main- 
tained a very high standing during his connection 
with the inftitution. He obeyed the call of his 
country, and in company with several of his class- 
mates, enlisted in the Anderson Cavalry, September 
1 2th, 1862, as a body guard to General Rosecrans. 



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Was in the fkirmish near Carlisle, Pa,, December 
30th, 1862, and then proceeded to Tenneflee, 
where he was for a time engaged in guerilla war- 
fare. His courage in battle and his coolness in the 
hour of danger soon impreffed his superior officers, 
and he was appointed a Lieutenant and Adjutant 
of the 17th Kentucky Volunteers. He was pros- 
trated by fever, and yet so eager was he to discharge 
his duty that at the request of his Colonel he took 
the oath of office while reclining upon his couch. 
But he could not enter upon his duties, for he fell 
in the very outset of his career. He died of ty- 
phoid fever, August 9th, 1863, at McMinnville, 
Tennessee. 



Note. — Captain Henry Lewis Southard, and Lieutenant Kent Delaware 
Davis, are also among the dead, but no materials could be obtained for 
special memoirs. 



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ABERT JAMES W., District of Columbia, Class of 1838. Was 
graduated at West Point in 1842 ; appointed Lieutenant, U. S. 
Topographical Engineers, and engaged in surveys and recon- 
noisancCvSi in the West from 1843-4(5 ; in the Mexican War 
under General Kearney ; Assistant Professor at West Point 
in 1849 and '50 ; again on survej's ; and in the Seminole War 
under General Harney in 1856 and 1858. In General Patter- 
son's army in 1861, and on the staff of General Keim in the 
battle of Falling Waters ; on the staff of General Banks in 
1861 and 1862, and specially mentioned by him in his official 
report of the battles of May 23d, 24th and 25th, 1862. In 
General Pope's campaign on the Rapidan, and in Genei'al 
McClellan's advance on Frederick City and South Mountain. 
On General Gillmore's staff in South Carolina, in 1863 and 
1864. Resigned his commission as Major U. S. Engineers, 
June 25th, 1864. 

ABERT S. THAYER, District of Columbia. Served during 
the war under the U. S. Corps of Engineers. Was in the 
Shenandoah campaign imder General Banks, and constructed 
the bridge by which the army crossed into Maryland at Wil- 
liamsport. Assisted in fortifying Nashville ; was under Gen- 
eral Meade before Petersburg, and served until the close of 
the war. 

ADAMS JAMES L., Hospital Steward, and afterwards Assis- 
tant Surgeon, 5th Michigan, until January 23d, 1863. 
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BABER RICHARD P. L., Ohio, Class of 1843. Paymaster, T. 
S. A., September 12th, 1861. 

*BARTLETT HENRY C, Xew Jersey, Class of 184t. Cap, 
tain, 1th N. J. Yols., August 28th, 1861 ; served with the Army 
of the Potomac before Richmond, &c. ; resigned January 14tli, 

1863. Appointed Captain, 33d ISTew Jersey, August 29th, 1863. 
Mortally wounded at Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia, May 8th, 

1864. (See Memoir.) 

BARTON W. B., New York. Lieutenant-Colonel, 48th N. Y. 
Volunteers, July 24th, 1861 ; promoted Colonel, Jime 18th, 
1862. Served before Charleston, S. C, in reducing Pulaski, 
before Petersburg and Richmond. Commanded a brigade in 
1864; mustered out December 3d, 1864. 

BATEMAN ROBERT M., M.D., New Jersey. Assistant Sur- 
geon, 25th N. J. Volunteers ; term of service expired June 
20th, 1863. Served in Maryland and Virginia. As Field Sur- 
geon, participated in Burnside's attack upon Fredericksburg, 
Va., December 13th, 1863, and narrowly escaped with his life. 

BEAUMONT H. N,, M.D., Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
U. S. N., April 29th, 1864, Served in hospital at Norfolk, 
Va., and on board of the monitor " Canonicus." Took part in 
both attacks on Fort Fisher under Admiral Porter, and then 
served on the Carolina coast and in the West Indies, until 
July 1st, 1865. Subsequently medical officer of the " Ohio" 
and the " Chattanooga." 

BELDEN OLIVER S., M,D., New Jersey, Class of 1853. As- 
sistant Surgeon, 5th New Jersey Vols., Ma^^, 1862; served in 
the Peninsula in the field as the Surgeon of the regiment, and 
in the hospital of the brigade. Present in the seven days' fight 
before Richmond, and subsequently at Bristow Station and the 
second Bull Run. During the last battle he was a prisoner 
for twenty- four hours and then released. Was in the battle 
of Fredericksburg, and term of service expired in Feb., 1863. 
From May, 1864, until Jan., 1865, was acting Assistant Sur- 



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geon, U. S. A. in Alexandria, Ya,, having charge chiefly of 
the King Street Hospital. Feb. 1st, 1865, served in hospitals 
in Savannah, Ga., until they were broken up. Honorably dis- 
charged May, 1865. 

BELKNAP WILLIAM WORTH, Iowa, Class of 1848. Major 
of the 15th Iowa Yols., Nov. 7th, 1861; promoted Lieut.-Col., 
Aug. 20th, 1862, and Colonel, April 22d, 1863; Brigadier 
General, IT. S. Yols., July, 1863, and commanded 3d Brigade, 
4th Division, ITth Corps: Brevet Major-General, March 13, 
1865, for " gallant and meritorious services during the war." 
Honorably mustered out, Aug, 24th, 1865. He was in nu- 
merous battles, the most important of which were those of 
Shiloh (where he was wounded and had a horse shot under 
him), Corinth, the several battles at Atlanta, &c. He was en- 
gaged in the sieges of Corinth, Yicksburg and Atlanta, and 
accompanied Sherman in his great March from Atlanta to the 
Sea, and thence to Goldsborough, Raleigh and Washing- 
ton. He was repeatedly mentioned for his coolness and cour- 
age, and in the battle of Atlanta, July 22d, 1863, he took pris- 
oner Colonel Lampley, of the 45th Alabama, by pulling him 
over the works by his coat collar. General B.'s final command 
was the 4th Division, Itth Corps. 

BILL JOSEPH HOWLAND, M.D., Class of 1855. Assistant 
Surgeon, U. S. A., April 13th, 1860. Served in the Depart- 
ment of New Mexico until May, 1862; in hospital at Fred- 
erick, Md., from October 1862, until January, 1863; as- 
signed to U. S. Laboratorj^, Astoria, Long Island, January, 
1863; Major by brevet, " for meritorious service," November 
3d, 1865, to date from March 13th, 1865 ; assigned to IJ. S. 
Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa., November 29th, 1865, where he 
remains. Promoted Surgeon, August 29th, 1866, to date from 
July 28th, 1866. Participated in the battles of Second Bull 
Run, South Mountain, and Antietam. 

B.LAIR FRANK PRESTON, Missouri, Class of 1841. Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. Yols., Major-General, U. S. Yols., Novem- 
ber 29th, 1862 ; resigned November 1st, 1865. At the siege 



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of Yicksburg ; commanded ITth Arm 3^ Corps in General Sher- 
man's March to the Sea, and thence to Washington, D. C. 

BLAIR DE WITT CLINTOT^, New Jersey, Class of 1856. 
Served three months in 22d New York State Militia, in 1861. 

BLANEY JAMES YAN ZANDT, M.D., Illinois, Class of 1838. 
Snrgeon of Brigade, U. S. Yols., August 31st, 1861. Medical 
Purveyor at Chicago, Illinois, November 23d, 1861. Ordered 
to Department of Yirginia, November 10th, 1862. Medical 
Director Department of Yirginia, September 23d, 1863. Medi- 
cal Purve3^or, Chicago, Illinois, September 12th, 1864. Mus- 
tered out, October T, 1865. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, Octo- 
ber 6th, 1865. 

BOYLE J. TILFORD, Kentucky, Class of 1839. Brigadier- 
General, U. S. Yols., November 9th, 1862. Resigned, January 
26th, 1864. Served in Kentucky and Tennessee. 

BRADNER THOMAS SCOTT, New York, Class of 1846. Chap- 
lain, 124th N. Y. Yols., September 5th, 1862; mustered out, 
June 3d, 1865. 

BRECKINRIDGE MARCUS PREYOST, Illinois, Class of 
1848. Captain in Subsistence Department, U. S. Yols., Sep- 
tember 2d, 1862. Honorably mustered out of service, January 
10th, 1866. Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. Yols. 

BROWN HARYEY ELLICOTT, M.D., New York, Class of 
1854. Assistant Surgeon, 1st Excelsior, JJ. S. Yols., April 
24th, 1861 ; promoted Surgeon, July 29th, 1861. Served in 
Maryland and in the Peninsula, taking part in the battles 
before Richmond, the seven days' fight, &c. ; subsequently in 
the battle of Fredericksburg, December 14th, 1862. Assistant 
Surgeon, IT. S. A., April 13th, 1863. Served in Department 
of the East until February, 1864 ; in Department of New Mex- 
ico until October, 1865, part of the time as Medical Director 
of the De^Dartment ; in Department of the East until October 
9th, 1866 ; at present in the Department of the Gulf. Cap- 
tain and Major by brevet, November 3d, to rank from March 



17 

13th, 1865, " for faithful and meritorious service during the 
war." 

*CASEY ISAAC K., Pennsylvania, Private in a Pennsylvania 
regiment ; appointed a Lieutenant of Cavalry by Governor 
Curtin, and subsequently by President Lincoln, an Aid-de- 
Camp, with the rank of Captain. Twice brevetted for gallant 
and meritorious services, he left the army in 1866, with the rank 
of Lieutenant-Colonel, and died in Washington, D. C, March 
5th, 186Y. (See Memoir.) 

COCHRAN" ANDREW P. LIXN, Class of 1856. Corporal and 
CajDtain, 152d Regiment Ohio IS^ational Guard ; in service 
May — August, 1864. 

COMBS WILLIAM SrTPHEiS^, New Jersey, Class of 1861. 
Assistant Surgeon, 38th N. J. Vols., September 23d, 1864 ; 
mustered out June 30th, 1865. 

CONOYER WILLIAM ARTHUR, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 
1859. Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Summer of 1862. As- 
sistant Surgeon, U. S. Yols., October 6th, 1862. Served in 
Department of Washington until May, 1863 ; promoted Sur- 
geon May 8th, 1863. Was with the 10th Corps in the van of 
the Army of the James, and participated in numerous battles 
North and South of the James, and in front of Petersburg ; 
was at the battle of Drewry's Bluff, the explosion of the Mine 
and the bombardment of Fort Pi^her, and entered Richmond 
with the armj^ Served in Department of Yirginia and North 
Carolina until August, 1865. Accompanied 25th Army Corps 
to Texas *as Medical Director with rank of Lieutenant- 
Colonel ; served in Department of Texas until mustered out, 
March 13th, 1866. Brevet Colonel to date from November 
24th, 1865. 

COOK JEREMIAH, Pennsylvania, Class of 1858. 1st Lieuten- 
ant, 126th Penna. Yols., August 9th, 1862. Participated 
with his regiment in the battles of Fredericksburg and 
Chancellorsville, and honorably discharged February 18th, 
1863. 



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COX ROWLAND, Illinois, Class of 1863. Left College to join 
the army. Appointed Assistant Adjutant General, U. S. Yols., 
with the rank of Captain, September 19th, 1863. In the cam- 
paigns under Generals Sherman and McPherson. Resigned, 
January 6th, 1865. 

GUMMING RICHARD S. C, New York, Class of 1854. New 
York Tth Regiment under first call. 

DALRYMPLE AARON P., M.D., Class of 184T. Surgeon, 1st 
N. Y. Volunteer Engineer Regiment, September 11th, 1861 ; 
participated in the caj)ture of Port Royal and Beaufort, South 
Carolina ; resigned in the Spring of 1862. Surgeon, U. S. 
Vols., June, 9th, 1 862. Served in Department of the South until 
mustered out February 2d, 1866. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 
for meritorious services during the war. He was chief medical 
officer, &c., in the 10th Corps at Hilton Head, was with the 
wounded of Pocotaligo, in the assaults on Fort Wagner and 
Olustee ; had charge of hospitals and discharged other duties 
successively at Beaufort, S. C, Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, 
S. C. August 11th, 1865, appointed Medical Director of the 
Department of North Carolina, on the staff of General Gillmore, 
and afterwards of General Sickels. 

*DAVIS KENT DELAWARE, Pennsylvania, Class of 1861. 
Second Lieutenant Marine Corps, June 1863 : Judge Advo- 
cate at Norfolk, Va., and died January, 1864. 

*DAYTON FERDINAND V., New Jersey, Class of 1854. As- 
sistant Surgeon, 1st N. J. Cavalry, September 20th, 1861 ; 
promoted Surgeon 2d N. J. Cavalry, July 12th, 1863. Acted 
as Surgeon-in-Chief, Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, from 
March 31st, to May mh, 1864 ; and February 11th, 1865, was 
assigned to duty as Surgeon in charge of the District of 
Natchez, Miss.; mustered out October 24th, 1865. BrcA^et Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, March 20th, 1865, for meritorious service. 
(See Memoir.) 

DE GRAW CHARLES SMITH, M.D., New York, Class of 
185^. Assistant Surgeon, 8th Regiment N. Y. State Militia, 



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April 23d, 1861. In the first battle of Bull Rim with two 
other surgeons, he "nobly surrendered rather than desert the 
wounded." A prisoner for some time, he was at last ex- 
changed" in February, 1862; appointed Assistant Surgeon, F. 
S. A., to rank from July 11th, 1862. On duty in General Hospi- 
tal at York, Penna., till January 5th, 1863 ; at Campbell Hos- 
pital, Washington, D. C, October 21st, 1863; with the 1st 
Battalion, 13th Infantry, July 2*7th, 1864, and served in the 
campaign and siege of Yicksburg ; on duty at Fort Dodge, 
Kansas, from May ITth, 1866. Brevet Major " for faithful and 
meritorious conduct," November 3d, to date from March 13th, 
1865. 

DE PUE ABRAHAM, Class of 1858. Private, 2d K J. Regi- 
ment ; served three months and was discharged August, 1861. 
Acting Assistant Paymaster, TJ. S. IST., June 1st, 1863, and in 
the "Kittatinny" assisted in the destruction of the pirate 
"Tacony;" then joined the West Gulf Squadron, and re- 
mained until July, 1865. Mustered out, December 25th, 1865. 

DICKSON JOHN NEWTON, Pennsylvania, Class of 1859. 
Lieutenant and Captain, 6th Penna. Cavalry; served with the 
Army of the Potomac. 

DILWORTH RICHARD B., Pennsylvania, Class of 1865. 
Left College and served nine months in a Pennsjdvania regi- 
ment. 

DOD ALBERT BALDWIN,New Jersey, Classof 1854. Captain, 
15th U. S. Infantry, May 14th 1861 : on i-ecruiting duty and 
in the field in Kentucky, until the Winter of 1861 : from that 
time until June, 1863, mustering officer at Columbus, Ohio. 
Participated in the capture of Morgan in Ohio ; was in the 
campaign from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga, with his regi- 
ment in the battle of Chickamauga, and on the staff of Major- 
General Gordon Granger, in the battles of Lookout Mountain 
and Missionary Ridge, &c. Under Generals Thomas and 
Sherman. Resigned in the Summer of 1864. 

*DOD CHARLES HODGE, New Jersey, Class of 1862. First 



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Lieutenant, 2d N". J. Cavalry, September 8th, 1863, and served 
in the West until June 19th, 1864, when he resigned, having 
been appointed, June 8th, 1864, Captain and Assistant Adju- 
tant-General of Yolunteers, and placed upon the staff of General 
Hancock. Died August 27th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 

DODGE ROBERT P., District of Columbia, Class of 1836. 
Paymaster with the rank of Major, June 5th, 1861; brevet 
Lieutenant-Colonel, March, 1865; mustered out, July 20th, 
1866. 

EDWARDS LOUIS A., M.D., Class of 1842. Appointed As- 
sistant Surgeon, U. S. A., August 2*7th, 1846. Served in 
Mexico and the Department of IS'ew Mexico until August, 
1850 ; at different forts until 1854, when he was assigned to 
duty in Washington, D. C. Promoted Surgeon, March 21st, 
1861. Served in the Middle Department and that of the East, 
during 1862, '63, '64 and '65. Appointed Colonel bj'' brevet, 
June 15th, 1865, to date from March 13th, 1865. Chief Medical 
Officer of the Bureau of Refugees, Ereedmen and Abandoned 
Lands, August 13th, 1866, and also Medical Director of the 
Department of Washington, November 1st, 1866. 

EGBERT AUGUSTUS R., M. D., Class of 1850. Surgeon of 
Brigade, U. S. Volunteers, November 5th, 1861. Served in the 
Department of the Pacific until mustered out, October 9th, 
1865. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, October 6th, 1865. 

ELMER ROBERT W., New Jersey, Assistant Surgeon, 23d 
New Jersey Volunteers, August 26th, 1862 ; mustered out 
June 2nh, 1863. 

EMERY JOHN RUNKLE, New Jersey, Class of 1861. Second 
Lieutenant, 15th New Jersey Volunteers, August 5th, 1862 ; 
discharged for disability incurred in the service, February 23d, 

1863. 

FIELD EDWARD, Class of 1861. Second Lieutenant, First 
New Jersey Cavalry, August 20th, 1861. Second Lieutenant, 
Fourth United States Artillery, February 19th, 1862; pro- 



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rooted First Lieut., 4th U. S. Artillery, August 11th, 1863 ; ap- 
pointed Brevet Captain, TJ. S. Artillery, May 12th, 1864. Was 
in twenty battles ; served with the Army of the Potomac, was 
in the seven days' fight ; in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chan- 
cellorsville and Antietam ; in Sheridan's Raid and before Rich- 
mond. He was specially commended and received promotion 
for gallantrj'- at the battle of Cliancellorsville. Now at Fort 
Foote, Md., near Washington, D. C. 

*FREEMAN JOSEPH ADDISON, M.D.,Xew Jersey, Class of 
1852. Assistant Surgeon, 13th New Jersey Volunteers, July 
11th, 1862 ; promoted Surgeon, March 16th, 1864, and resigned 
April 26th, 1864 ; appointed Assistant Surgeon, United States 
Volunteers, April 6th, 1864. Served in the Department of the 
Cumberland, and died of pneumonia at the General Hospital, 
Nashville, Tenn., December 29th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 

FULLER ALBERT C, New Jersey. First Sergeant in a com- 
pany from Trenton, during the raid into Pennsylvania, in 

1863, First Lieutenant, 34th New Jersey Volunteers, October 
19th, 1863; served in Tennessee and Kentucky; was Ad- 
jutant and Provost Marshal of Island No. 10, and Post Adju- 
tant of Columbus, Ky. Repeatedly prostrated by illness, he 
resigned, October 10th, 1864. 

GANSEVOORT HENRY L., New York, Class of 1855. Private, 
April 16th, 1861 ; promoted Second Lieutenant Fifth Artillery, 
United States Army, May 14th, 1861 ; mustering officer at 
Harrisburg, Pa., September, 1861 ; organized Battery "M.," 
Fifth Artillery, in December, 1861, and served with it and 
Battery " C," Third Artillery, through the Peninsular cam- 
paign and the seven days' fight ; promoted First Lieutenant 
Fifth Artillery. Present in battles of Groveton, Gainesville, 
second Bull Run, South Mountain and Antietam, where he 
was wounded. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, Thirteenth New 
York Cavalry, in March, 1863 ; promoted Colonel, March 28th, 

1864. October 14th, 1864, Colonel Gansevoort, with his 
regiment, surprised Mosby's camp and captured his artillery. 
Bre vetted Brigadier- General in 1865, and mustered out of 
service in August, 1865. 

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* GRIER WILLIAM P., Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
United States Army, July 23d, 1862. Served with the Army 
of Yirginia. On duty in Surgeon-General's office from Jan- 
uary 10th, 1863 ; in Medical Director's office, Philadelphia, Pa., 
December 14th, 1863; assigned to Department of Arkansas, 
October 23d, 1865. Blown up on the steamer Miami, January 
28th, 1866. (See Memoir.) 

GUBBY JAMES, Class of 1850. Chaplain, Third Regiment, 
Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, October 10th, 1861 ; present at 
the capture of Ports on Hilton Head and Bay Island ; resigned 
October, 1862, and appointed Hospital Chaplain, United States 
Army, April 2d, 1863, and served at Hilton Head until Jan- 
uary, 1865; at Alton, 111., from May until July, 1865, when 
he was honorably mustered out of the service. 

GULICK JOHN S., New Jersey, Class of 1838. Purser, United 
States Navy ; ranks as Captain, February 1st, 1851. 

HAINES ALANSON A., New Jersey. Chaplain, Fifteenth 
New Jersey Yolunteers, August 15th, 1862. This Regiment 
belonged to the Sixth Corps, and participated in all its hard- 
ships and severe fighting. He was present and often exposed 
to li. e in more than thirty battles, among which may be men- 
tioned Fredericksburg, December 13th, 1862, and May 3d, 
1863, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, 
Petersburg and the last battle in Yirginia. He witnessed the 
surrender of Lee's army, and was mustered out July 1st, 1865. 

* HAINES THOMAS RYERSON, New Jersey, Class 185Y. 
Captain, First New Jersey Cavalry, October 6th, 1861. Served 
in Yirginia, and was killed at Harrisonburg, Ya., June 6th, 

1862. (See Memoir.) 

HALL CALDWELL KEPPELL, New Jersey, Class of 185T. 
Adjutant, Fifth N. J., Yolunteers, August 24th, 1861 ; pro- 
moted Lieutenant-Colonel, Fourteenth New Jersey Yolunteers, 
August 2Tth, 1862; discharged September 10th, 1864, "on ac- 
count of physical disability from wounds received in action," 
at the battle of the Monocacy, Md. Bre vetted Colonel and 



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Brigadier-General, " for gallant and meritorious services dur- 
ing the war," in the Peninsular campaign, Meade's campaign 
of 1863, and that of the Wilderness in 1864. 

*HALL THOMAS MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania, Class of 1853. 
Adjutant, 121st Pennsylvania Yolunteers, August, 1862 ; pro- 
moted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1864. Served with 
the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. (See Me- 
moir.) 

HAMILTON M.,left College and enlisted in the Anderson Cav- 
alry, September, 1862. 

HEBERTON EDWARD PAYSON, Pennsylvania, Class of 1850. 

As second officer of the U. S. Coast Survey vessel, " Dana," 
he assisted in rescuing her from vmder the guns of Fort Marion, 
St. Augustine, Fla.; appointed Assistant Paymaster United 
States Navy, November, 1861, and assigned to the "Hetzel ;" 
engaged with the " Richmond," in James River ; took part in 
the Burnside expedition to Roanoke Island, and narrowly es- 
caped death from the explosion of a gun, while he was acting 
as volunteer signal officer, during the attack; was engaged in 
the capture of Elizabeth, North Carolina. In the " Stellin" he 
did blockade duty off Charleston, S. C, and participated in 
the first attack on Fort Sumter. On account of ill health he 
resigned in May, 1864. ^ 

HEWITT JOHN DUNBAR, Class of 1860. Private in an in- 
dependent Battery, United States "Volunteers, Captain Nevin, 
of Lancaster, Pa., July 1st, 1863. Term of service expired 
about February 1st, 1864. 

HODGE JOHN LEDYARD, Class of 1853. Additional Pay- 
master United States Army, with the rank of Major, July, 1861; 
October, 1861, made assistant in the office of the Paymaster- 
General, United States Army ; April, 1865, brevetted Colonel 
of Yolunteers, and in May, 1866, appointed also Chief Pay- 
master of the Washington District; January ITth, 1861, Pay- 
master, United States Army. 



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HODGE JOHN B., New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 10th Re- 
giment 'New Jersey Yolunteers, April 12tli, 1862 ; honorably 
discharged in consequence of physical disability, January 29th, 
1863; re-commissioned March 4th, 1863, but obliged to resign 
on account of ill health, June 25th, 1863. Served in Wash- 
ington, D. C, and Suffolk, Ya. 

HOLDEN EDGAR, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1859. Assist- 
ant Surgeon, U. S. Navy, September, 1861; Surgeon on the 
Minnesota in Hampton Roads, and at the capture of Norfolk ; 
on the Wyandotte ; on the second Monitor, the Passaic ; par- 
ticipated in the first attack on Charleston, S. C. Engaged in 
hospital duty and on the blockade ; he was subsequently on 
the Sassacus when her gallant commander. Roe, endeavored 
to run down the iron-clad ram Albermarle. For an account of 
this action see Harper's Magazine, for September, 1864. In 
1864 he directed the Medical Department of the James River 
Squadron, and resigned in the fall of 1864. Served in the 
Army Hospital, in Newark, until the close of the war. 

*HOLDEN HENRI, New Jersey. Left College and enlisted in 
the army, September, 1862 ; served nine months. Died Novem- 
ber 10th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 

HOY JAMES, Jr., Class of 1858. Paymaster, United States 
Navy, October 11th, 1861 ; ranks as Lieutenant-Commander 
from October l^th, 1864. 

HFEY SAMUEL BAIRD, Pennnsylvania, Class of 1863. Cap- 
tain's Clerk, U. S. Navy, June, 1863, on the " Sah Jacinto," 
Com.R. Chandler, East Gulf Squadron ; July, 1863, Aid to Ad- 
miral Bailey, on blockade duty in the West Indies and the Gulf; 
February, 1864, appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, and 
on the " Yantic," was on blockade duty, &c., at Wilmington, 
N. C; was in both attacks on Fort Fisher, in the capture of 
Fort Anderson, and Wilmington, N. C, in charge of a battery, 
and as signal oflicer. Honorably mentioned and resigned, Jan- 
uary, 1866. 

HUNT EZRA MUNDY, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1849. As- 



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sistant Surgeon, 29th ISTew Jersey Yolimteers, October, 1862; 
had charge of Calvert Street Hospital, Baltimore, Md., during 
his whole term of service until March, 1863. 

*HUNT G. DRUMMOND, Jr., Kentucky, 1st Lieutenant, 4th 
Kentucky Volunteers, SiDring of 1862 ; Inspector 3dBrigade,3d 
Division, 14th Army Corps; Adjutant, 3d Kentucky Yolun-> 
teers, April, 1863 ; mortally wounded at Mission Ridge, Novem- 
ber _25th, and died November 29th, 1863. (See Memoir.) 

HUNTER LOUIS B., New Jersey, Class of 1824. Surgeon, 
United States Navy, January 3d 1828; promoted AjDril 4th, 
1831. Ranks as Captain. 

JACKSON HUNTINGTON W., New Jersey. Left College, 
and was appointed Second Lieutenant, 4th New Jersey Volun- 
teers, September 1th, 1862; promoted to First Lieutenant, 
and Aid-de-Camp to Major-General John Newton, 1st Army 
Corps; also Aid-de-Camp to Major-General 0. 0. Howard, 
Army of the Tennessee ; brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel ; served 
in the Army of the Potomac, from the battle of Antietam until 
April, 1864; participating in the battles of Fredericksburg, 
Chancellors ville, Marye's Hill, Gettysburg, Mine Run, &c.; 
with General Sherman's army, from Chattanooga to Jones- 
borough, Georgia, resulting in the capture of Atlanta. Parti- 
cipated in the battles of Rockj'^ Face Ridge, Resaca, Kennesau 
Mountain, &c.; wounded at Kennesau, June 26th, 1863. Re- 
commended for promotion for especial gallantry at Marye's 
Hill, Gettysburg and Kennesau. Mustered out, October 1st, 
1864. 

JANEWAY JOSHUA HOWELL, Class of 1851. Chaplain, 
199th Pennsylvania Volunteers, December 24th, 1864. Served 
until the regiment was mustered out, June 28th, 1865. 

*JANEWAY HUGH H., New Jersey. First Lieutenant, 1st 
New Jersey Cavalry, August 14th, 1861; promoted for gal- 
lantry, successively to the grades of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel 
and Colonel. In different battles he was twelve times wounded. 



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He fought through the war, and was killed at Amelia-Springs, 
Ya., April 5th, 1865. 

JENI^ISON JOSEPH FOWLER, Pennsylvania, Class of 1852. 
Chaplain, 203d Penna. Volunteers. 

JEROLOMAN JOHN, New Jersey. Left College and entered 
the 2d New Jersey Cavalry, as Sergeant, July 28th, 1863 ; 
promoted Second Lieutenant, 3d New Jersey Cavalry, May 
6th, 1864 ; promoted First Lieutenant, November 1st, 1864, 
and Captain, for meritorious service on the battle-field, May 3d, 
1865; mustered out, August 1st, 1865. Served in the West, 
and was wounded at Guntown, Miss.; next served in the 
Yalley of the Shenandoah, participating in Sheridan's victories 
and in his grand raid, and was wounded before City Point. 

KELLEY SAMUEL P., New Jersey. Private in the New Jersey 
militia, July 1st, 1863; served six weeks at the time of the 
Pennsylvania invasion ; July 14th, 1864, private in the 196th 
Pennsylvania Volunteers ; served in various places, chiefly on 
guard duty. Mustered out, November 16th, 1864. 

KIMBERLY HENRY DICKINSON, New York, Class of 
1860. Assistant Paymaster, United States Navj'-. 

KNOX JAMES SUYDAM,New Jersey, Class of 1860. Pri- 
vate, 21st N. J. Volunteers, July, 1862, and took part in the 
battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. In the Spring 
of 1863, again enlisted in the United States Army, and served 
as Hospital Steward for some time. Again enlisted in the 1st 
Battalion District Volunteers, and was gradually promoted to 
Captain. Resigned in 1865, just before the close of the war. 

LEDYARD EDWARD DENISON, Pennsylvania, Class of 
1864. While a student, enlisted in 49th Penna, State Militia, 
and served nearly three months at the time of the invasion of 
Pennsjdvania. 

LEWIS VALENTINE A. Chaplain, 2d Regiment New York 
Volunteers, May 11th, 1861, and served in the Peninsula. 
Resigned in Septemper, 1861, on account of sickness. 



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*LINDSLEY WEBSTER, M.D., District of Columbia, Class 
of 1855. Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, May 28th, 
1861 ; on duty in Washington, D. C, until July, 1861, when 
ordered to Cincinnati, Ohio ; served with the 18th United 
States Infantry, in Kentucky and Tennessee, from December, 
1861, until April, 1863. Subsequently had charge of hospitals 
at Baltimore, Md., York, Pa., Beaufort, S. C, and finally at 
Washington, D. C, in June, 1864. Served with 1st Battalion, 
12th United States Infantry, at Richmond, Ya., from August, 
1865, to November 3d, 1865, then placed in charge of the Post 
Hospital. Major by brevet, November 3d, 1865. Died in 
Washington, D. C, Avigust 8th, 1866. (See Memoir.) 

McCAULEY CLAY, Pennsylvania, Class of 1864. While a 
student, became a private, 126th Pennsylvania Yolunteers, 
August 6th, 1862 ; promoted Sergeant and Second Lieutenant ; 
mustered out, Ma}^ 22d, 1863. Participated in the battles of 
South Mountain, Antietam, White Sulphur Springs, Ames- 
ville, Predericksburg and Chancellorsville. In the last battle 
he was stunned, captured and incarcerated in Libby Prison for 
six days, and after a captivity of eleven days was paroled. 

McCLEERY JOHN, Pennsylvania, Class of 1858. Captain, 5th 
Pennsylvania Reserves, May, 1861; served in West Yirginia, 
before Washington, in the Peninsula, and at Falmouth, Ya. 
Participated in the seven days' fight before Richmond ; in 
the battle of Glendale, in the thickest of the fight he was 
wounded in the thigh and in the shoulder, -and taken pris- 
oner ; spent some weeks in hospital, was then transferred to 
Libby Prison, and finally exchanged in August, 1862. Unable 
to join the army until October, ill health compelled him to re- 
sign in December, 1862. He became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
28th Provisional Regiment of Pennsylvania, and assisted in 
repelling the enemy from the Cumberland Yalle}^, when they 
invaded Pennsylvania. 

McCOY JAMES SHARON, Ohio, Class of 1863. Mate, United 
States Navy; August 25th, 1864, served on the "tin clad" 
"Juliet," and on the "iron clad" "Louisville," Mississippi 
Squadron. Resigned, May, 1865. 



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McDowell a. WILLIAM, M.D., Class of ISST. Surgeon, 6th 
Veteran Volunteers, Februarj^ 23d, 1865 ; served at Indian- 
apolis, Harrisburg and Washington. Mustered out, April, 
1866. 

McGILL GEORGE M., M.D., Class of 1858. Assistant Surgeon, 
United States Army, April 16th, 1862 ; on duty in hospitals, 
in the Department of Washington, until March 14th, 1863; 
with the Army of the Potomac, in its campaigns until January 
13th, 1865, when assigned to the hospital at Baltimore, Md.; 
assigned to the Department of the East, July 24th, 1866. 
Major by brevet, March 13th, 1865; Lieutenant-Colonel, by 
brevet, September 28th, 1866, for services during the preva- 
lence of cholera at Hart's Island, N. Y. 

MoGOWAN THEODORE, Class of 1 855. Captain and Assist- 
ant Adjutant General, United States Volunteers, July 14th, 
1862, and served in the Peninsula. March 3d, 1863, placed 
on staff of General Martindale, Military Governor of Washing- 
ton, and served as Judge Advocate until Eebruarj^, 1864, then 
as Chief of Staff and Acting Adjutant General until December 
17th, 1864, when General Augur appointed him Provost Judge 
of Washington and Assistant Judge Advocate of the Depart- 
ment. Promoted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, by brevet, 
March 13th, 1865. Mustered out, July 1st, 1866. 

*McKEEN HENRY B., Class of 1853. Adjutant, 81st Pennsjd- 
vania Volunteers, October 2tth, 1861 ; promoted Major for 
gallantry at Fair Oaks, June 1st, 1862 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 
July 1st, and made Colonel, November 24th, 1862 ; wounded 
in the seven da3^s' fight, at Fredericksburg and at Chancellors- 
ville; killed at Cold Harbor, June 3d, 1864. (See Memoir.) 

MARCELLUS ALGERNON, New Jersey, Class of 1863. Left 
College and enlisted in the 59th Regiment, N. Y. Vols. ; with 
the 2d Corps passed through the campaigns and battles of 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Mine Run. 
Appointed 2d Lieutenant, U. S. Colored Troops, December 
29th, 1863, and served in New Orleans and Pensacola. As 
staff officer served in various capacities, and in April 1865, was 



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promoted Adjutant of the 25th U. S. Colored Troops. Mus- 
tered out, December 14th, 1865. 

MATHER DE WITT CLINTOX, New York, Class of 1852. 
N. Y. Tth Regiment under the first call. 

MATHER THOMAS D., New York, Class of 1853. N. Y. 1th 
Regiment under the first call. 

MEHAFFEY CALYIN D., Pennsylvania, Class of 1853. Second 
Lieutenant, 1st U. S. Infantry, August 5th, 1861 ; promoted 
1st Lieutenant, October 24th, 1861; promoted Captain, No- 
vember 26th, 1864. 

MILLER ELIHU SPENCER, Class of 1836. Commanded a 
Battery from Philadelphia during the invasion of Penna. 

MILLER JONATHAN DICKINSON, M.D., New Jersey, Class 
of 1829. Surgeon U. S. N ; appointed December 5th, 1836, 
promoted April 20th, 184T. Ranks as captain. 

MOFFi\ T EDWARD, New Jersey. Left College and enlisted 
as a private in the 9th N. J. Yols. Appointed 1st Sergeant, 
promoted 2d Lieutenant, March 9th, 1862, but declined: again 
appointed, May 16th, 1862; detached and appointed 2d Lieu- 
tenant Signal Corps, U. S. A., March 3d, 1863. Brevetted 1st 
Lieutenant, and then Captain, and mustered out August llth^ 
1865. Served in the Army of the Potomac, and in the Burn- 
side Expedition ; participated in the capture of Roanoke Is- 
land ; was in General Foster's Goldsboro expedition, and took 
part in its decisive battles ; was in General Hunter's Expedi- 
tion against Charleston, S. C. He was in more than a dozen 
battles in North Carolina. Had charge of signal outposts, espe- 
cially at Bachelor's Creek, N. C, where February 1st, 1864, 500 
Union Soldiers resisted General Pickett with 1000 men and 
several batteries of artillery for nine hours, and thus saved 
Newbern. Lieutenant M. unwittingly rode into a regiment of 
rebels, but preferring death to the horrors of Andersonville, he 
turned, and amid a shower of bullets, he escaped. He was offl- 
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cially thanked for his gallantry in this battle. May 26th, 1864, 
his signal station was accidentally blown up, and eighty persons 
killed. September 10th, 1864, he was appointed Acting Chief 
Signal Officer of North Carolina, and while at Newbern was 
attacked by the yellow fever. February, 1865, he was stationed 
as Signal Officer at General Meade's Head Quarters, before 
Petersburg, Ya. He was actively employed during Lee's attack 
on Fort Steadman, in the Hatcher Run fight, the capture of 
Petersburg, in the line of battle, April 6th, and present at the 
closing fight and at the surrender. 

MOORE DAYID W., Class of 1858. Chaplain, 9nh Penna. 
Yols., June Tth, 1864. Served with the regiment before Pe- 
tersburg, Ya., under Generals Meade and Butler. Resigned 
November 24th, 1864. 

MOORE AMBROSE Y., Class of 1846. Chaplain. 

*NEFP ALDUS J., Pennsylvania, Class of 1850. Captain, 
3Tth Penna. Reserves. Died August 4th, 1862. 

OAKLEY LEWIS WILLIAM, M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1849. 
Assistant Surgeon, 2d N. J. Yols., May 2Tth, 1861 ; promoted 
Surgeon, October 12th, 1861. Brigade Surgeon under Gen- 
erals Kearney and Taylor ; and Surgeon-in chief of the Brigade 
under General Torbert, until mustered out, June 24th, 1864. 
Served with the Armjr of the Potomac. 

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OTIS GEORGE ALEXANDER, M.D., Class of 1849. Surgeon, 
27th Mass. Yols., September 14th, 1861 ; Assistant Surgeon U. 
S. Yols., June 30th, 1864, and Surgeon, August 30th, 1864 ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, March 13th, 1865. Assistant 
Surgeon, U.S.A., February 28th, 1866 ; Captain by brevet, 
September 28th, 1866 ; Major by brevet, September 28th, 
1866. Was in Burnside's Expedition to North Carolina, and 
participated in its engagements. Served in the Departments 
of the South and of Yirginia for nearly three years. July 1 st, 
1864, in the Surgeon General's Office on duty in connection 
with the Surgical Records of the War of the Rebellion, and as 
Curator of the Army Medical Museum. 



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OVERTON EDWARD, Jr., Class of 1856. Major and Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, 50th Penna. Yols.; served with the Army of 
the Potomac ; wounded at Antietam ; mustered out, Septem- 
ber 30th, 1864. 

PAIGE JAMES ALEXANDER, Class of 1849. Hospital 
Chaplain, IJ. S. A., St. Louis, Missouri, June 4th, 1862. Hon- 
orably discharged, December, 1865. 

PENNINGTON SAMUEL HAYES, Jr., Class of 1862. Yol- 
unteei-ed as private in Second Battalion N. J. Militia, on inva- 
sion of Pennsylvania ; entered the volunteer service as Second 
Lieutenant and mustering officer, August 22d, 1863 ; commis- 
sioned First Lieutenant 35th N. J. Yols., September 15th, 
1863; Captain, November 15th, 1864: mustered out August 1st, 
1865. Took part in the expedition from Yicksburg to Meri- 
dian, Miss., in the campaign against Atlanta, in the pursuit 
of Hood, and finally in Sherman's March to the Sea, and the 
closing campaign in the Carolinas. Was frequently detailed 
for special service as Commandant of Pioneers, Acting Judge 
Advocate, &c. 

PHELPS CHARLES EDWARD, Maryland, Class of 1852. 
Officer, Tth Maryland Yolunteers, September, 1862, promoted 
Colonel; resigned, September 9th, 1864. 

PHILLIPS WILLIAM W. L., M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1848. 
Surgeon 1st N. J. Cavalry, August 16th, 1861 ; Surgeon of 
Bayard's Cavalry Brigade, October, 1862, and Division Sur- 
geon of Bayard's Cavalrj-- Division, November, 1862 ; on staff 
of General D. M. Gregg, December 13th, 1862. Term of ser- 
vice expired, September 1st, 1864. 

PIERCE SAMUEL EYERETT, Class of 1850. Chaplain of a 
New York Regiment, State Militia, under the first call. 

*POLLOCK SAMUEL HEPBURN, Pennsylvania, Class of 
1859. Adjutant, 131st Penna. Yols., 1862-65. (See Memoir.) 

POTTER ROBERT B., New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 24th 



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N. J. Vols. ; served with his regiment until its muster out, 
June 29th, 1863. 

POTTER WILLIAM E., New Jersey, Class of 1863. Left College 
and enlisted as a private, 12th N. J. Yols., July 28th, 1862 ; 
commissioned 2d Lieutenant, August 14th, 1862 ; mustered into 
service for three years, September 4th, 1862. Served in Mary- 
land and in the Army of the Potomac as Ordinance Oflflcer of 
the 3d Division, 2d Corps, until October, 1863 Promoted 1st 
Lieutenant, August 4th, 1863, and appointed Judge Advocate 
of the Division October 1st, 1863. Promoted Captain Febru- 
ary 4th, 1864. In the campaign beginning May 4th, 1864, he 
was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864. 
Returned to duty in June, 1864, and was present in all the 
battles of the campaign. August 1st, 1864, Judge Advocate 
of 2d Division, 2d Corps, and on the staff of General Gibbon ; 
January 15th, 1865, Aid-de-Camp to General Gibbon and 
Judge Advocate of the 24th Corps, Army of the James. Was 
in all the actions of the final campaign, and present at the 
surrender, Appomattox C. H., April 9th, 1865. He was one 
of the six officers detailed to deliver the colors of Lee's Army 
to the Secretary of War. Brevet Major of Yolunteers, May 
1st, 1865, and mastered out, June 3d, 1865. 

RAWN CHARLES C, Jr., Pennsylvania, Class of 1861. 2d 
Lieutenant, 1th IT. S. Infantry, August 5th, 1861 ; promoted 
1st Lieutenant Jul}^ 9th, 1862; promoted Captain, Tth IT. S. 
Infantry, November 4th, 1863. 

REEDER FRANK, Pennsylvania. Left College and enlist- 
ed in the 5th Penna. Yolunteers, August, 1862 ; Adjutant 
l'74th Penna. Yolunteers, November 19th, 1862; Captain 
19th Penna. Cavalry, October 19th, 1863, and Lieutenant 
Colonel of his regiment, January 26th, 1865, which he com- 
manded during the last year and a half of its service ; mus- 
tered out, May 18th, and finally discharged, June 4th, 1866. 
Served under General Corcoran at Black Water Creek and 
Suff'olk, Ya., was in General Foster's Expedition from Beau- 
fort, N. C. ; served under Generals Hunter and Gillmore. 



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While in the Cavalry, he took part in several expeditions and 
raids and battles in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkan- 
sas and Louisiana, under Generals Smith, Grierson, Sturgis, 
Slocum, Mower and Canby. He was engaged in thirty skirm- 
ishes and nearly thirty battles, among which may be mentioned 
those at Bolivar, Tenn., Black Pdver, Port Gibson and Grand 
Gulf, Miss., and the battles before Nashville under General 
Thomas, all in 1864. He was repeatedly wounded, had 
three horses shot under him at the battles of Nashville, took 
a stand of colors and Lieutenant Colonel Pennington of 4th 
Louisiana Yols., in a hand to hand conflict in front of Nash- 
ville, December ITth, 1864, for which he was mentioned in the 
official report, and recommended for a brevet and a medal of 
honor. 

REEDER HOWARD JAMES, Pennsylvania. Left College 
and entered the U. S. A., October, 1861. Resigned, but re- 
entered the army in October, 1862. Captain, 153d Pa. Vols.; 
mustered out, July 25th, 1863. 

RINKER HENRY, New Jersey, Class of 184t. Private in a 
New York Regiment of Yolunteers. 

ROBESON WILLIAM P., New Jersey. Eirst Lieutenant, 3d 
N. J. Yols., May 28th, 1861 ; promoted Captain August 13th, 
1862 ; promoted Major, 3d N. J. Cavalry, December 28th, 1863 ; 
promoted Lieutenant-Colonel November 23d, 1864 ; mustered 
out with his regiment, August 1st, 1865. Brevetted Colonel 
and Brigadiei'-General "for gallant services during the war." 

ROE JOSEPH B., M.D., Pennsylvania, Class of 1858. Assistant 
Surgeon of Yolunteers, 1862; served until November, 1865, in 
hospital and other duty. 

SCHANCK PETER Y., M.D. Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., 
May 28th, 1861 ; on du.ty at St. Louis from September 30th, 
1862, until November, 1864 ; in Department of Missouri until 
May 1st, 1865 ; at Washington until July 15th, 1865 ; in Texas 
from September 2nh, 1865, until September 2nh, 1866. Re- 
signed, January 1st, 186T. 



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*SEIIGEA]S[T WILLIAM, Pennsylvania, Class of 1847. Cap- 
tain, 12th Infantry, V. S. A. ; Colonel, 210th Pa. Vols. Served 
with the Army of the Potomac. Fatally wounded March 31st, 
1865, and died April 11th, 1865. (See Memoir.) 

SHELLABARGEE, JOSEPH L., Illinois, Class of 1858. Pri- 
vate, 116th 111. Yols., August 1862 ; promoted 2d Lieutenant 
June 1863 ; promoted 1st Lieutenant ; detailed into the signal 
corps, U. S. A., February, 1864, and served in it to the close 
of the war. Mustered out, June 29th, 1865. Was in the as- 
saults upon and the siege of Yicksburg, the capture of Jack- 
son, Miss. Took part in the several expeditions with the army 
of the Tennessee, was in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, his 
March to the Sea, and thence to Wa-shington. 

SIMONSOI^ GEORGE LE FEYRE, New York, Class of 18 65. 
While a student he enlisted in a New York Regiment, State 
Militia, at the time of the invasion of Pennsylvania, and served 
about three months. 

SIMPSON JOSIAS,M.D., New Jersey, Class of 1833. Assistant 
Surgeon, U. S. A., July 11th, 183t : served in the Florida War ; 
in the War with Mexico, at the siege of Yera Cruz, the battles 
of Cerro Gordo and Churubusco. Promoted Surgeon, August 
11th, 1855 ; Medical Director, Department of the Pacific, 1858. 
Medical Director of the Middle Department, Baltimore, Md., 
from December, 1861, until September 29th, 1866, when as- 
signed as Medical Director of the department of Tennessee. 
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, March 13th, 1865, 
" for faithful and meritorious services during the war." 

SMITH JAMES PASCAL, M.D., New York, Class of 1855. 
Surgeon 69th N. Y. State Militia and Yolunteers. In the three 
months' service and again, September 20th, 1861, until Janu- 
ary, 1863. 

SMITH LOUIS HENRY, New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 
2d N. J. Cavalry, August 15th, 1863. Was for many months 
a prisoner in different prisons in the South. 



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*SOUTHARD HENRY LEWIS, New York, Class of 1836. 
Captain, 1st N. Y. Yol. Engineers. Died June 3d, 1864, from 
wounds received at Bermuda Hundred. 

STANFIELD E. P., Indiana. Left College and became Adju- 
tant, 43d Indiana Yols. Served from November 18th, 1861, 
until December 20th, 1864. 

STEWART CHARLES S., New Jersey, Class of 1820. Chap- 
lain, November 1st, 1828. 

STEWART JOHN, Pennsylvania, Class of 185Y. First Lieu- 
tenant, 126th Penna. Yols., August 6th, 1862; appointed Ad- 
jutant, August 12th, 1862; Assistant Commissary of Musters, 
3d Division, 5th Corps, January, 1863; honorably discharged, 
July 30th, 1863. Participated in battles of Fredericksburg, 
December, 1862, and Chancellorsville, May, 1863. 

STOCKTON SAMUEL W., New Jersey. Second Lieutenant, 
4th TJ. S. Cavalry, May 4th, 1861 ; promoted First Lieutenant 
May 24th, 1861, and Captain March 14th, 1865. Appointed 
Captain of Yolunteers, and Aid-de-Camp on staff of General 
D. Hunter. Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel March 13th, 1865. 
Resiglied. 

STRATTON MORRIS HANCOCK, New Jersey, Class of 1858. 
Captain, 2d N. J. Cavalry, August 28th, 1863 ; resigned, August 
23d, 1864. 

*STRONa RICHARD MARYIN, New York, Class of 1854. 
First Lieutenant and Adjutant, lYtth N. Y. Yols., Novem. 
ber, 1862. Served in the South-West, and died at Assump- 
tion, La., May 12th, 1863. (See Memoir.) 

STRYKER WILLIAM SCUDDER, New Jersey, Class of 1858., 
Private in New Jersey troops, three months' service. Officer 
in organizing 14th N. J. Yols., July 11th, 1862. Paymaster 
U. S. A., February 19th, 1863, and ordered to Hilton Head. 
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capture of Morris Island, night attack on Fort Wagner, and 
bombardment of Forts Wagner and Sumter. Transferred 
North to save life, and placed in charge of Pay Department at 
Parole Camp, Columbus, Ohio. Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel 
" for meritorious services during the war." Resigned, June 30th, 
1866. He was appointed Adjutant General of New Jersey, April 
12th, 186t. 

*STUDDIFORD JOSIAS SIMPSON, New Jersey, Class of 1858. 
Adjutant, 4th N. J. Yols., August 17th, 1851. Served with the 
Army of the Potomac. He was taken prisoner at the battle 
of Gaines' Mill, June 2tth, 1862, and subsequently exchanged. 
Killed at Crampton Pass, Md., September 14th, 1862. (See 
Memoir.) 

TAYLOR JOHN WINTHROP, M. D., New Jersey, Class of 
1835. Surgeon, U. S. N.; appointed March tth, 1838 ; promoted 
May 1st, 1852. Ranks as Commander. 

TAYLOR S. B., New Jersey. Left College and enlisted in the 
19Tth Penna. Yols., stationed at Rock Island, 111. 

THOMSON McLEOD, Pennsylvania. Left College and en- 
tered the Anderson Cavalry, September 12th, 1862. Served in 
the West. 

*TOLLES CORNELIUS W., New Jersey, Class of 1848. As- 
sistant Adjutant General of the New Jersey Brigade, three 
months' troops, July 8d, 1861 ; appointed First Lieutenant, 
13th TJ. S. Infantry, dating from May 14th, 1861; promoted 
Captain; appointed Lieutenant Colonel and Quartermaster, by 

. act of July 17th, 1862. Died of wound received in action at 
Winchester, Ya., November 8th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 

TOWNLEY JONATHAN, New Jersey, Class of 1858. Second 
Lieutenant, 9th New Jersey Yolunteers, November 13th, 1861. 
Was in the "Burnside Expedition;" took part in the capture 
of Roanoke Island, and was wounded at Newbern, N. C, May 
14th, 1862. Promoted First Lieutenant, May 16th, 1862, and 



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Captain, March 11th, 1864. Wounded at Drury's Bluff, Va., 
May 16th, 1864, and mustered out, February 4th, 1865. 

VAN CLEYE HORATIO P., Miunesota. Colonel of the 2d 
Minn. Yols., July 22d, 1861 ; with General Thomas in his 
Kentucky campaign of 1861-62, and took part in the battle of 
Mill Spring, for which he was promoted Brigadier-General. 
Was at the siege of Corinth ; commanded a division under Gen- 
eral Buel and General Rosecrans, and was wounded in the battle 
of Stone River, December 31st, 1862. Besides minor engage- 
ments he was in the battle of Chickamauga. Mustered out of 
service, August, 1865. 

• VAN DUYN JOHN, New Jersey, Class of 1862. Hospital at- 
tendant, August, 1862, David's Island, N. Y.; Medical Cadet, 
February 2d, 1864, Louisville, Ky.; A. A. Surgeon, U. S. Army, 
March, 1864 ; Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Yolunteers, May 15th, 

1864, and served at Pittsburgh and Chambersburg, Pa. Mus- 
tered out, November 1st, 1865. Brevet Captain, October 1st, 

1865, " for faithful and meritorious service." 

YAN DIJYN STEPHEN WYNKOOP, New Jersey, Class of 
ISSt. Acting Medical Cadet, U. S. Army, September, 1862 ; 
in 1863, A. A. Surgeon, U. S, Army; on service at the XJ. S. 
General Hospital, David's Island ; March, 1865, Assistant Sur- 
geon, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, and served in Yirginia. Mus- 
tered out, August, 1865. 

YAN DUYN WILLIAM. Hospital Attendant, August, 1862; 
Medical Cadet, U. S. Army, February 2d, 1864 ; Assistant Sur- 
geon, TJ. S. Yolunteers, May 15th, 1864. Besides other service, 
had charge of hospitals at Pittsburgh, Pa., and Chambersburg, 
Pa. Brevetted Captain, U. S. Yolunteers, October 1st, 1865, 
" for faithful and meritorious service." Mustered out Novem- 
ber 1st, 1865. 

YAN DYKE HENRY L. R., New Jersey, Class of 1858. 
Served three months in the 22d N. Y. State Militia, under the 
first call. 

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VAN RENSSELAER CORTLANDT, Jr., New Jersey, Class 
of 1858. First Lieutenant, 13th IJ. S. Infantry, May 14th, 
1861; promoted Captain, June 18th, 1862, on the staff of 
General Sherman, and died at Nash>'ille, Tenn., October Tth, 

1864. (See Memoir.) 

VAN RENSSELAER PHILIP LIVINGSTON, New Jersey, 
Class of 1860. Second Lieutenant, 2d N. J. Cavalry, July 8th, 
1863 ; promoted Captain, September 8th, 1863, and Major, Octo- 
ber 8th, 1864. Was in several expeditions nnder General A. J. 
Smith and General Grierson, and in the siege of Mobile. Was 
on General Canby's staff for a time. Resigned, June 28th, 
1865. 

WALL EDWARD BARRY, New York, Class of 1848. Chap- 
lain, 3d N. Y. Cavalry, June 8th, 1863, and served in the Army 
of the James and the Army of the Potomac. Honorably dis- 
charged, October 12th, 1864. 

WARREN LUCIUS HENRY, Massachusetts, Class of 1860. 
Private, 32d Massachusetts Volunteers, Julj^ 24th, 1862 ; pro- 
moted Second Lieutenant, July 31st, 1862 ; promoted First 
Lieutenant for gallantry at Fredericksburg, Va.; appointed 
Major, 38th U. S. Colored Infantry, March 24th, 1864. While 
in the 3 2d Massachusetts he took part in thirteen battles, 
among which were. Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, Chancellor sville and Gettysburg. Wounded at 
Chancellorsville, and three-fourths of his company were killed 
and wounded at Gettysburg. He was Judge Advocate of 1st Di- 
vision, 5th Corps. Commanded the 38th U. S. C. I. before Peters- 
burg and Richmond, and was in numerous engagements. It 
was in the mine explosion, and at New Market Heights more 
than one-half of the officers and men were killed and wounded. 
In June, 1865, the regiment was ordered to Texas, and he was 
promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, and then Colonel, March 13th, 

1865. Commanded a brigade, brevetted Brigadier-General, 
December, 1866, and was mustered out in the Spring of 1867- 

WEYER EDWARD PAYSON, Indiana, Class of 1858. First 



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Sergeant, 6ltli Indiana Volunteers, August, 1861; engaged in 
the Western and Southern campaigns ; promoted Captain ; 
was in the second attack on Yicksburg ; in the battle of Ar- 
kansas Post, &c. Mustered out, July, 1865. 

WILLING EDWARD LIYmOSTON, M.D., New Jersey, 
Class of 1851. Assistant Surgeon, 3d New Jersey Volunteers, 
June 25th, 1861 ; promoted Surgeon, 11th N. J. Volunteers, 
July 19th, 1862 ; January, 1863, appointed Surgeon in charge 
of the Division Hospital, 2d Division, 3d Corps, near Frede- 
ricksburg, Va.; Medical Director of all the hospitals in the 3d 
Corps, April 1st, 1863 ; January, 1864, Surgeon in charge of 
the 2d Division, 3d Corps ; had charge of the " Division Fly- 
ing Hospital," in Grant's march, and during the Summer of 
1864, &c ; again had charge of the Division Hospital, 3d Di- 
vision, 2d Corps, and was Surgeon-in-Chief of the 3d Brigade. 
Mustered out, July, 1865. He was with the Army of the Poto- 
mac from the first battle of Bull Run to the surrender of Lee 
at Appomattox Court House. Besides other engagements, he 
participated in the seven days' battles ; in that of Fredericks- 
burg, December, 1862; in that of Gettysburg, and in all the 
battles of Grant's campaign, from the Rapidan to the James, 
and to Petersburg. 

* WILLIAMS J. M., New Jersey, left College and entered the An- 
derson Cavalry, September 12th, 1862; Lieutenant and Ad- 
jutant, 11th Kentucky Volunteers. Served in the West, and 
died August 9th, 1863. (See Memoir.) 

WILLIAMS LEWIS J., M.D., Maryland, Class of 1838. Sur- 
geon, U. S. Navy; appointed January 25th, 1842; promoted 
September 11th, 1856 ; rank of Commander. 

WINEBRENER JOHN A., Pennsylvania, Class of 1861. Second 
Lieutenant, 3d IF. S. Infantry, 14th November, 1863 ; trans- 
ferred as Second Lieutenant, Ordnance Department, same 
date; First Lieutenant, Ordnance, December 1st, 1865. 

WOOD FRANCIS G., New York, Class of 1858. Secretary to 



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Com. Wm. Mervine, May, 1861 ; in the Gulf Blockading 
Squadron, until October, 1861. 

WOOD WILLIAM JACKSON, New Jersey, Class of 1856. 
Major of Cavalry and Paymaster TJ. S. A., February 25tli, 
1862 ; on the staff successively of Generals Hunter, Foster, 
Gillmore and Hatch in the Department of the South ; volunteer 
aid to General Gillmore during the siege and capture of Morris 
Island. Kesigned and honorably discharged, August 12th, 
1864. 

WOODHIJLL ADDISON WADDELL,M.D., New Jersey, Class 
of 1854. Assistant Surgeon, 5th N. J. Yolunteers, August 23d, 
1861 ; promoted Surgeon, 9th N. J. Yolunteers, February 6th, 
1862 ; mustered out February Tth, 1865. Served in the Army 
of the Potomac, and in North Carolina and South Carolina, in 
the hospital, and in Newbern and Beaufort, and as Surgeon 
of General Hickman's Star Brigade, both in Yirginia and the 
Carolinas. In one engagement he had his horse shot under 
him, and was wounded. 

WOODHIJLL ALFRED ALEXANDER, M.D., New Jersey, 

Class of 1856. Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, September 19th, 
1861 ; served in Washington, and in the field, with the Army 
of the Potomac, until November, 1862; in the office of the 
Medical Director of Middle Department, from December, 1862, 
to October, 1863 ; Medical Department of Yirginia and North 
Carolina, from November, 1863, to May, 1864; with the Army 
of the James until Maj^, 1865 ; preparing catalogue of the Army 
Medical Museum, since June, 1865; Captain by brevet, and 
Major by brevet, June 15th, 1865, to date from March 13th, 
1865, " for faithful and meritorious service during the war." 
Participated in the siege of Yorktown, the battles of Gaines' 
Mills, Malvern Hill, second Bull Run, Antietam and others; 
present at Petersburg, April 2d, and Appomattox C. H., April 
9th, 1865. Lieutenant-Colonel hy brevet. 

WOODRUFF ISRAEL C, New Jersey. Graduate of West 
Point. Brevet 2d Lieutenant, 3d Artillery, U. S. A., July 1st, 



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1836 ; 1st Lieutenant U. S. Corps of Engineers ; promoted Cap- 
tain ; promoted Major August 6th, 1861; promoted Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel August 15th, 1864. Brevetted Colonel and Briga- 
dier-General " for meritorious services during the war," March 
• 13th, 1865. Assistant Professor at West Point, 1836-38 ; in 
Lake Surveys, 1838-1846 ; on Light House Board, 1846-48 ; on 
the Plains and constructing military roads, 1848-53; engineer 
of Light Houses on the Lakes, 1853-5t ; since 1857 in Engineer 
Bureau at Washington, where he is now the senior assistant. 

*WOOLSEY HENRY HABRISOISr, New Jersey, Class of 
1856. Lieutenant 5th N.J. Vols., 1861 ; Captain, May, 1862 ; 
served chiefly in the Army of the Potomac ; killed before Peters- 
burg, Ya., June 18th, 1864. (See Memoir.) 

WURTS WILLIAM W., New Jersey. First Lieutenant, 1st 
N. J. Cavahy, April 20th, 1862 ; resigned May 28th, 1863. 
Afterwards Captain in a Cavalry Regiment, Pennsylvania State 
Militia. 

YOTJNGr JOHN P., Pennsylvania. Lieutenant and Adjutant, 
lUh Penna. Yols., March 31st, 1862 ; served in the Army of 
the Potomac; resigned March 14th, 1865. 

*ZABRISKIE ABRAM, New Jersey, Class of 1859. Adjutant, 
9th N. J. Yols., October 18th, 1861; promoted Major, February 
10th, 1862; Lieutenant-Colonel, December 22d, 1862; promoted 
Colonel, January 8th, 1863. Wounded at Drury's Bluff, Ya., 
May 16th, 1864. Died May 24th, 1864. Brevet Brigadier- 
General, U. S. Yols. (See Memoir.) 

ZAPH C. H. A., New Jersey, Class of 1864. Private, 4th N. J. 
Yeteran Yols., 6th Army Corps, December 12th, 1864, and. 
served as Captain's Clerk. Took part in the battle of Peters- 
burg, April 2d, 1865 ; discharged July 9th, 1865. 



[The editor of the Roll of Honor has endeavored 
to make it a complete and faithful record of the 
fad:s respecting the Sons of Nassau Hall, who 
were engaged in the War for the Union. Many 
omissions and errors will, doubtless, be found. 
They are unintentional, and the editor will grate- 
fully receive all additions and corrections. He re- 
turns his sincere thanks to all who have assisted him 
in the work, and commits it to all those who love 
our common Union, and who, like Washington, 
consider it "the palladium of our political safety 
and prosperity." 

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